The story: Discipline is central to the US military. It involves regulating all aspects of a servicemember’s life, from hair length, sleep time, clothing, physical fitness, where one lives, to cognitive choices. The primary objective to instilling discipline is to ensure that servicemembers act so automatically and without question during peacetime that, in combat, they also will act automatically and without question. Such discipline ensures they will not defy nor ignore an order delivered by a superior. This habitual enactment of discipline is called
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The story: Discipline is central to the US military. It involves regulating all aspects of a servicemember’s life, from hair length, sleep time, clothing, physical fitness, where one lives, to cognitive choices. The primary objective to instilling discipline is to ensure that servicemembers act so automatically and without question during peacetime that, in combat, they also will act automatically and without question. Such discipline ensures they will not defy nor ignore an order delivered by a superior. This habitual enactment of discipline is called