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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Watch The Caine Mutiny. You'll see just how hard it is to question the captain's authority, even one who's gone off his nut.
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But as Admiral Jack Fisher said after the Battle of Dogger Bank, "Like Nelson at Copenhagan and St. Vincent! In war the first principle is to disobey orders.
Any fool can obey orders!"
The funny thing is that he was the First Sea Lord at the time, the head of the entire British navy, and he was telling them to disobey orders! :rotfl: