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When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

17. When the higher officers

are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or no he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.