In essence, the higher your army’s morale, the more reliable they’ll be without you. If your army has high morale ... killing 100 soldiers, or defeating an enemy in a duel.

which threatens its future military operations, writes the American think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in a recent analysis. It adds that morale within the Russian military community ...

But in Richmond, Lee sought to inspire his troops by drawing upon Virginia's storied military tradition ... extraordinary high morale, a belief they can’t be conquered. But at the same time ...