When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination . 540 When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse . 541

When the higher officers 542 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 . 543