"Rites of Passage"

In this brief piece by Sharon Olds, she gives a detailed log of her son's birthday party, illustrating the 6-7 years old boys as grown men. Later in the poem, she begins to speak of her son in a way which he would find embarrassing. Near the end, she alludes and draws similarities between the boy's and Military Generals. Instantly, after finishing this poem, i felt assurance that it had to be a mockery of the immaturity of the military general's mentality. But then i went back an re-read it, and the second time through i felt that maybe this is just an allusion that i ran too far with.