Perhaps so, but military morale, lifted temporarily by Mr Lloreda, has sunk again.
The Malian military was low on morale and equipment, the distances vast and the territory difficult.
Carrying the defence brief in opposition, he bonded with his Labour opposite number, Bob Ainsworth, over their shared struggle to persuade their party leaders to take the military's low morale and underfunding more seriously.
As former senior commanders, we know that the reason for this long-standing envy is the unsurpassed discipline, morale and readiness of our military.
He spoke to the Ohio audience about his "compassionate conservative" agenda to help out the less fortunate, rebuilding the morale and strength of the military, and protecting Social Security for current retirees and younger people under his partial privatization plan allowing for some investment in the stock market.
It speaks to this isolated incident, and it doesn't speak to a full breakdown in terms of morale and discipline and capabilities in our military.
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President Abraham Lincoln took a dim view of those who, during wartime, acted in ways that damaged the morale of the American people and undermined the military.
One of the military's goals during World War Two was the maintenance of civilian morale.
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And it was deeply held by the first advocates of air power in the early 20th Century, including early British and Italian military theorists like Sir Hugh Trenchard and Giuilo Douhet who believed that civilian morale would collapse with the first air strikes on cities.
While respect for civilian authority has always been a hallmark of the Indian military, Bhagwat's dismissal is widely seen as a major blow to morale.
Companies such as BP and Capita have already signed up several military spouses, which Heledd says has made a real difference to serving partners' morale.
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