Monday, April 13, 2009

Proud Obedience - vs - Servility

Armys can only function if the troops are disciplined and obey their superiors. This much is obvious, what is not no apparent is that areally effcient army is the one which has `self-disciplined' troops. Becasue the discipline is of two kinds, namely good discipline and bad discipline.

good discipline is the one which comes from within, in other words it is willing subordination based on faith and resepct. Bad discipline is the one enforced by might of punitive power vetsed in higher authority. Such discipline may produce reasonable results in a benign environment but would fail measerably under the stress of combat.

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