It may lie behind the breakdown of discipline in classrooms.
Its effect was to cause a breakdown of discipline in the armed forces.
The inaction was a lapse in leadership that reflected the eventual near total-breakdown of discipline in the unit.
It was a breakdown of discipline and a source of deep embarrassment, after Ansar posted Internet bulletins boasting of routing pesh merga and commandeering their equipment.
"The breakdown of discipline has become a major problem in all schools and it is one that has to be tackled head on," he told the assembled headteachers.
Mr. Ivanov did not detail the extent of their punishments, but they appear to have been reprimanded for a breakdown of discipline that allowed the helicopter to be grossly overloaded.
The army commander, Gen. Walter Chacon, and Defense Minister Carlos Bergamino conferred with Mr. Fujimori for several hours at the presidential palace today, and the army released a toughly worded communique condemning "the serious breakdown of discipline".
But Washington has also been worried that a breakdown of discipline or retribution by the alliance's fighters, many of whom are ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks, could alienate the Pashtuns in the south and prompt them to rally around the Taliban.
A short time after that, he received a phone call from an Army lawyer representing one of the accused, who described near-continuous violence, chain-of-command failures and the breakdown of discipline in Bravo Company's theater of operations: "What that company is going through, it would turn your hair white," he said.
We have ample documentation of the breakdown of discipline, the "fragging" of officers, the rampant use of drugs, and the repeated breakdowns in command.
