Isolating the recruits in barracks, military schools and training camps was the first essential step towards the creation of the professional, disciplined force of soldiers.

Those units tasked with capturing key structures found themselves at the receiving end of a more disciplined force commanded by officers denied their evacuation.

Sub-officer ranks were introduced late in the revolution in an effort to create a more disciplined force.

It defines itself as a disciplined force of the left.

Their power depended on the spear and on the disciplined force of their armed citizens.