His solution is to revive the military virtues - honor, pride and the disciplined exercise of will.
Having said that, one said everything there was to say about his military virtues.
First and foremost among the military virtues is loyalty, above all to one's salt.
They were apparently disciplined enough to cleave to the military virtue of passing any difficult decision over to a higher authority.
And if your "attitude" doesn't reflect what we've come to think of as military virtues, who cares?
A decent, upright man, he is an epitome of all the military virtues.
It was primarily awarded for bravery or other military virtue on the battlefield.
The action was not without those examples of military virtue which soften a disaster, and hold out a brighter promise for the future.
"Up until this time, I was unaware that casting accounts had become a cardinal military virtue."
Piety, to him, went only so far as a military virtue.