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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1296114" data-attributes="member: 149">Try reading through some of the early Horatio Hornblower novels. Or some of the early Miles Vorkosigan stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, like "Young Miles". Early stories in military fiction series often have a clearly more competent subordinate having to deal with incompetent or bull headed superiors.Some of the classic ways of dealing with this kind of situation are to interpret the orders "VERY" loosely. "Guard the sewer gates" for example could be distorted to going and attacking the enemy forces across the moat, because they were "threatening the gate". Success after all forgives much, particularly if they lay down a line of BS afterwards about how their superior's orders were so brilliant and inspired. That also works if they just do what makes the most sense and then claim that was what they were ordered to do, or that they "misunderstood" the order. Since doing X made much more sense and he couldn't have meant Y.</blockquote>