rank and file

Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.

行政体/层，常犯错误的公司决策层，应该是指公司内握有实权却有少能力的管理者。

Is it not chiefly because they upheld the principle of serving the people, established exemplary relations with the people through sacrificing their own interests, crated inside the armed forces a comradeship that brought the initiative of junior officers and the rank and file into full play, relied on the masses, analyzed the experience of each battle, and from battle to battle made continuous progress, both strategic and tactical?

难道主要地不是由于他们坚持为人民服务的立场，自我牺牲的精神，树立了模范的军民关系，在部队内部建立了能够充下级官兵积极性的同志式的关系，并且依靠群众，总结每次战争的经验，从战术到战略都不断地得到进步的原故吗？