> What the author does not really discuss here is the discipline of troops.
He talks specifically in other posts about the problems with "discipline" as a term (it groups too many different things as though they were the same), and he talks specifically about "cohesion" (which is the thing I think you're getting at) in this post at several points.
I'm not going to say discipline isn't an overloaded term, but it really ought to include resisting instinct and desire to do what needs to be done so as to accomplish goals. I would certainly not describe what I'm referring to as cohesion, which I would consider more the skill of soldiers coordinating their movements and actions.
He talks specifically in other posts about the problems with "discipline" as a term (it groups too many different things as though they were the same), and he talks specifically about "cohesion" (which is the thing I think you're getting at) in this post at several points.