** Subverted by Gregor's ambitious (but not ''too'' ambitious) foster brother, who frequently complains about the inefficiency of democracy and declares that he much prefers a "clean chain of command."
*** Only when he's at the top.
* HoratioHornblower of CSForester's series of novels has this as a defining character trait as he rises through the ranks. He exhibits a much milder (and somewhat more palatable) form of it in each of the miniseries based on the novels.
** Within the same genre, [[{{Aubrey-Maturin}} Jack Aubrey]] occasionally ponders the depth of isolation imposed upon captains by regulation and social etiquette.
*** Thankfully, he enjoys the relatively [[HoYay uninhibited companionship]] of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners particular friend]] Dr. Maturin, who has an ambiguous position with regard to aforementioned regulations.
*** In ''The Mauritius Campaign'' it's noted that the officers in the RN refer to their uniform buttons as "The Curse of God", in acknowledgement of the decisions sometimes forced upon them by their responsibility.
* The titular Colonel-Commissar of DanAbnett's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: Literature/GauntsGhosts'' deals with this a lot.
** Increasingly, so do the other senior officers among the Ghosts. This trope can be brutal when you have genuinely decent people in command of the RedshirtArmy in a [[CrapsackWorld setting like this]].

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** Subverted by Gregor's ambitious (but not ''too'' ambitious) foster brother, who frequently complains about the inefficiency of democracy and declares that he much prefers a "clean chain of command." (Though only when he's at the top).
* Literature/HoratioHornblower of CSForester's series of novels has this as a defining character trait as he rises through the ranks. He exhibits a much milder (and somewhat more palatable) form of it in each of the miniseries based on the novels.
* In the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Jack Aubrey occasionally ponders the depth of isolation imposed upon captains by regulation and social etiquette. Thankfully, he enjoys the relatively [[HoYay uninhibited companionship]] of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners particular friend]] Dr. Maturin, who has an ambiguous position with regard to aforementioned regulations. In ''The Mauritius Campaign'' it's noted that the officers in the RN refer to their uniform buttons as "The Curse of God", in acknowledgement of the decisions sometimes forced upon them by their responsibility.
* The titular Colonel-Commissar of DanAbnett's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: Literature/GauntsGhosts'' deals with this a lot. Increasingly, so do the other senior officers among the Ghosts. This trope can be brutal when you have genuinely decent people in command of the RedshirtArmy in a [[CrapsackWorld setting like this]].

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