Why is the need for discipline and respect so important in the military?

Question

Why is the need for discipline and respect so important in the military?

Answer 1

So you learn to follow orders. and work in groups

Answer 2

Discipline and respect are a very important part of a soldiers training.

Discipline will enable the individual to learn the basics for survival and accepting the discipline that is affded them will extend their individual life expectancy on the battle field.

The respect is a mutual affordance that is applied not only by the senior commissioned and noncommisioned officers but by each and every soldier that expects to increase their survivability. Jose

Answer 3

What job do you have that discipline and respect do not apply in the workplace? Where, if some one does not have these attributes do you think they will learn them in a more beneficial atmosphere? The only place I can think of is the military.

Answer 4

The need for discipline goes and in hand with having to kill people on command.



That's why only young men are recruited into war... they are more easily brainwashed. They don't have a fixed idea of who they are yet. Try to do boot camp on a squadron of 40 year old men! No way! The guys would tell the drill sergeant to take this job and shove it!

Answer 5

In order to be victorious of course. Charging a hill with led bullits coming your way won't happen without discipline and respect, trust me.

Answer 6

so that they will follow the orders, because if they dont they will have no clue what to do, and then they will just die in the war. like a snap of a finger. so they make sure they listen so they know how to use things in the military, so they dont brake the expencive things that they have.

Answer 7

To condition them to listen to their leaders and obey them even if it is at the cost of their own lives. The groups in the military must learn to think of themselves as one cohesive unit the "we" group vs the "they" group if they have any chance as a whole to prevail.

Answer 8

Because they want drones who will do what they are told and not think about things too much.

Answer 9

it is a form of mind control (psyops), formerly known as brainwashing