An army without strict discipline is not an army. When you join a fighting group you don’t do what you feel you want to do...you follow orders “to the T.”
Failure to do so will get you in the “brig” or thrown out...no exceptions! At least that used to be the way it was before the recruits feelings and opinions influenced whether they would obey orders and regulations they didn’t like.
WORSE YET...these aren’t enlisted ranks...they are the officers who will lead (or run) as the case may be.
From the dawning of time up until the mid 60’s children received paddling and spankings for bad behavior. In the latter 60’s to the mid 70’s they were placed in “time out.” After that, it all went to crap! We found that NOTHING was their fault...it was the fault of society and the reason they violated rules, expectations and laws was because their ESTEEM was damaged by those who enforced such rules.
Now, look where we are? Even the cadet officers can do anything they wish and the commanders are TERRIFIED of he repercussions heaped upon them by possibility of personal punishment in making them do anything. The new disease in military leaderships is “MothePanphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of the unknown like the press and physiologists along with racist “experts.”
Consequently, we don’t have any military any longer...just a mob of people who do what they think they want to do...not what they are ordered to do for THERE IS NO PUNISHMENT ANY LONGER!
The last major war we won was WWII. We’ve done nothing except show the world how weak we become with each international conflict and now they laugh at what we have as a Commander In Chief. What a “slap in the face” for all who gave their life and limb in protection of our way of life and country in the past.
Just makes me sick to my stomach!
An Army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe.
Bump!