ABSTRACT
This chapter looks closely at the use of discipline and drill, since no human culture can exist without the factor of discipline, with force as its ultimate sanction. It also looks at the use of discipline in a crisis, in view of the fact that this plays an important role in the processes of freedom and in its abrogation. The chapter shows that it is not the quantity of constraint or discipline which matters; human behavior within the freest of free communities demands under circumstances the extremes of discipline. The rigid discipline of primitive tradition is due to the danger of trial and error experimenting by small groups living on a narrow margin of survival and achievement. There is no doubt that all systems, religious or political, which instill in the individual a firm belief that death on the battlefield leads to Valhalla or to Mohammed's paradise, are a great asset in military discipline.
