[quote]Marmadogg wrote:
Everyone would have skin in the game at all times.[/quote]
Very true.
[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
Well, I will be first to say that I would dodge a draft. Forcing military service from a “free” nation is a joke. Any country that cannot get enough people to volunteer to fight for it doesn’t deserve to be fought for.
Perhaps our military wouldn’t be overstretched (though I would hardly say it is) if we didn’t have so many people deployed that do stupid shit like run dangerous convoys in order to get the next shipment of ice cream in to the chow hall.
Mike[/quote]
Great point. The infrastructure we build in Iraq and the amount of manpower needed for force protection and logistics is staggering.
[quote]TQB wrote:
I think that conscription was invented by the French when they were invaded in 1792 by the Austrians. No doubt the were inspired by the stories of Spartans and republican Rome, but those systems were different.
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I never said that conscription wasn’t a recent invention.
At any rate, this society is probably too narcissistic to even hope to save it by way of instilling military virtues. “Me me me.”
[quote]nephorm wrote:
TQB wrote:
I think that conscription was invented by the French when they were invaded in 1792 by the Austrians. No doubt the were inspired by the stories of Spartans and republican Rome, but those systems were different.
I never said that conscription wasn’t a recent invention.
At any rate, this society is probably too narcissistic to even hope to save it by way of instilling military virtues. “Me me me.”
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Well, when you consider what the military is competing with for their attention it isn’t hard to understand why or how the American youth have become so narcissistic. But that’s probabaly a discussion for another thread.