Is Flogging Necessary?

The idea that the rank and file just sort of cower in submission to their offices is absolute rubbish. You get people trying to manipulate this process of how much of a punishment they receive on the parade ground as they are being brought forward to be flogged. Officers play these really interesting games with their men where they turn around, part way into the flogging, and say, will the battalion vouch for this individual's good conductabsolute silence from the paraded men? Another 25 will somebody from his, well, his company as a whole, vouch for his good conduct silence,. Will one person from his platoon vouch forHis good conduct and then somebody speaks up. It's important