Russia already has conscription. If the neo-cons keep pushing for a war against Russia, do you think the feminized millennials will accept conscription and be a match for the Russians?
Britain ended conscription back in 1957 but many countries across the world still have some form of compulsory military service. The practice is controversial for many reasons including opposition on religious grounds or conscientious objection to military engagements. Many democracies including Brazil, Norway, Israel, South Korea and Switzerland still have some form of mandatory military service. Many states that have abolished conscription still have the power to bring it back into force during wartime.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Conscription, the Draft, serves the purpose of keeping the military civilized with ties to their home and the people there being greater than their ties to the military command structure.
It also keeps widespread military training among the general civilian population which is the Militia that keeps us a Free State.
A professional military of only career and self seeking volunteers does the opposite.
The only type of conscription that is respectable and legitimate imho is when it walks in step with a foreign policy of military neutrality – aka the Swiss. The purpose of the military is to DEFEND YOUR BORDERS – which I believe is the responsibility of all able men. Even middle aged half crippled guys like me can put on a pack and pull a trigger. It’s not a perfectly libertarian solution but we don;t live in a perfect world either.
It is a model I am pushing for here if our current batch of globalists don’t throw the country into some form of revolution or war of secession over the next 4 years. The talk of the west leaving confederation has already begun on some web sites here. This does not bold well for the ‘unified’ nation our new PM keeps yammering about.
FUBARED
Made me think (for a change) whether a volunteer force is more like a mercenary force and would be willing to fire upon (kill) its own citizens – vs a conscripted force. Reminds me of our volunteer police forces.
I definitely think so.
Selective service, we don’t have a forced draft, yet. However, its a crime to not volunteer yourself to selective service…
I thought Greenland was part of or associated with Denmark? Denmark has armed forces.
Still, I suppose there’s not much need to guard a sheet of ice. I’ll bet the USA has a bigger military presence on Greenland than anyone else.
I like to read day to day stories of military life in different parts of the world. You can find a forum for just about any base that ever existed. Anyway back in the 60’s there was an air traffic controller at Thule AB in NW Greenland on duty one day when a large cargo plane was inbound. The pilot called in to find out what the snow conditions were like on the runway and the controller told him the snow was 5000 feet deep but to land anyway.
The runway was just a marked out area on the ice and the entire base was literally under the ice. My father got stuck there a few times as part of a maintenance team waiting on parts to get their planes out.
as a draftee who has been screwed up since, i support it, yet selective is a joke, every swinging dick can serve and those without dicks as well. there is a place for all, .good civics course. nothing like skin in the game. mercenary armies fit in well with obams’s plans for our futures
It’s very odd, but all the TBP articles are brilliant apart from the ones I just happen to know a bit about, and then they are pure bullshit. For instance, the other day there was one with a graphic that claimed that the U.S.A. has had the largest economy in the world for 140 years, and now there’s this claim that “Britain ended conscription back in 1957”, which is a bit like claiming that you get paid as soon as you issue an invoice; the measures ending it were set in motion in 1957, but they kept on conscripting for a few more years and the last of those conscripts were kept until years after that (and could theoretically be recalled as reservists for a while even after that).