Discipline - Its Reason and Battle Value - Stewart Murray

This interesting treatise was written in light of the European breech-loading rapid fire battles of 1870, when soldiers in the pell-mell of battle became too confused to think. The aim of this publication is to give the Non-commissioned Officer and Privates the habit of instinctive obedience to the word of command in the heat of battle, and as a matter of last resource to \fight on by himself\.One of the well regarded Gale & Polden Military Series, the object of this dissertation is to make each..