Meanwhile, when you’re preoccupied with all of that and have more than enough on your plate as it is, some clown in the civil service back home discovers that military activity on the grand scale has led to a catastrophic cash-flow problem, so calmly announces that your men are going to have to wait for their pay for another six months. You’re careful not to call it a mutiny, or even let the M-word cross your mind, because mutiny is so desperately serious that you’d have to take extreme measures to deal with it so it’ll never happen again. The punishment for mutiny is laid down in the military
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