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If something is to be feared more than the enemy, I think it should be that one might, in a moment of terror or self-betrayal, fail to do one's duty. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 45, Sentence #47)

Also, troops which have followed orders and risked their lives in battle are unlikely to view with tolerance or equanimity those who have shirked their duty and thus, quite possibly, put their fellows in greater peril. In some manuals it is recommended that troops should fear their own officers more than the enemy. I have never, personally, found this crude recommendation persuasive. If something is to be feared more than the enemy, I think it should be that one might, in a moment of terror or self-betrayal, fail to do one's duty. Honor, of course, is involved in such matters. The good officer, I think, should be such that, first, men would follow him gladly into a den of larls, and, second, one who, to the best of his ability, makes certain that he never, if it can be avoided, leads his men into a den of larls. The mercenaries, obviously, given the nature of their last 'attack', did not fear decimation. - (Avengers of Gor)