Our decisions are governed to a much greater degree than we would care to admit by the demands and constraints of the rank and conditions that chance has allotted us. Very many of our deliberations are merely automatic consequences of impressions and influences we absorbed long ago, and anyone brought up right from childhood in the rigorous routine of soldierly discipline is particularly subject to the unopposable psychological imperative of a command once issued. Any military order will exert a kind of power over him which, though logically quite inexplicable, completely overrides his own
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