You didn't provide the paragraph, however, smaller officers are more honest usually because the people working in them don't change that often and they usually know each other personally and are friends even when not working. Large companies have thousands of people who don't know each other and don't care about each other.
Explanation:
Watt (108) describes how these raids became the first jihad: Thus, whether Muhammad incited his followers to action and then used their wrongs [wrongs committed against them] to justify it, or whether he yielded to pressure from them to allow such action, the normal Arab practice of the razzia [raid] was taken over by the islamic community.
Invention of new weapons/gases was HUGE, but Disease and famine was also a large factor
