Re: Military/International Law in the Nap. Period
In a way you are half right. An army is glued together with discipline; a commander must maintain discipline or that army becomes a rabble.
The (very minor) German contingents in Spain and Portugal were almost all at most a regiment strong (there was Leval`s German division at Talavera), who were subject to the universal French logistics `system`: `look after yourselves or starve`. They had no support systems at all and were thus forced to live according to this `system`.