it traces the lineage of different practices of discipline, and claims that mid 19th century they all sorta combined together into a whole way of orienting to society through discipline
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Avoid Gibbon on this point. Our understanding of the Roman army has meaningfully improved and changed substantially since 1789.
(In practice, avoid Gibbon on essentially all points. Decline and Fall was important in terms of the development of the field of Roman history, but isn't really current or accurate on much of any of its main arguments.)
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What's a specific example of something relevant I'm likely to be mistaken about by reading Gibbon?
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Oh boy. Gibbon's argument about Christianity leading to the fall of the empire is a mess and not taken seriously by historians. His moralizing discussion of civic virtue is likewise the result of an overly credulous reading of the sources.
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