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Might Conscription Become A Thing?
I think many young people would be prepared to defend their country, but there'd also be others who would run a mile from the prospect of military life.
Would a modern day conscript make a good soldier?
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young people today will simply not accept conscription... and nor should they. there's no good reason that young british men should be sent to die in the donbas or in israel.
the reason the army is so small is because such a large proportion of our defense budget go into stupid wasteful and useless nuclear weapons. it is laughable that the UK maintains a nuclear arsenal as it is not in any meaningful sense independent and it is effectively just putting together american missiles on british soil that cannot be fired without american software. if we got rid of that we'd have plenty of money for a well-equipped and well-paid conventional forces... or alternatively with this country's excellent research capacity we could use it to become leaders in "unconventional forces". but we won't because we persist in the fantasy of being a great power and that means we have to pee away huge amounts of our defence budget on nukes.
ukraine has never had nuclear weapons. the ones they got rid of in the '90s were soviet missiles that were stationed on ukranian soil and then moved after ukraine became independent. it is a myth that ukraine disarmed.
ukraine is also in a different situation because it is bordered by a much larger hostile state. the uk is not in that position.
Well, all that I can say is that, when I was conscripted in 1960, all the young men who were with me accepted what they were asked to do. However, we were not asked to go to a war zone, there was never any danger to us. Although I would not have volunteered to join the Army, I found the experience to be not unpleasant. I learned to get along with others of my age, I saw something of the world, I passed my driving test, and I learned how to use a map and a compass (which became very useful later on when I formed an interest in hill-walking, camping, etc.). All in all, I do not regret my experience of conscription.
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