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Another ACOUP discussion of drill and discipline is here:

https://acoup.blog/2025/04/04/fireside-friday-april-4-2025/

Quote:

> But note how, while obedience to discipline and synchronized discipline are often conflated, they’re not the same: a lot of early modern pike-and-shot armies had tremendous synchronized discipline, but were mutiny-prone and it was often difficult to get them to do things like haul their own supplies or prepare their own food.