Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 10 months agoI’m of the opinion that when a democracy forces you into the military there will be no democracy left to defend
Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 10 months agoI’m of the opinion that when a democracy forces you into the military there will be no democracy left to defend
jj4211@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, depends.
Note that US military history picks me from trusting them in this fashion, but if mandatory military service were: -severely limited term -purely domestic (prepare for defense from active attacks, relief, and rescue) -not used in any vaguely law enforcement capacity.
Then I could see that as possibly reasonable.
Of course I’d be skeptical that a nation would display that sort of restraint, but just saying I could imagine a hypothetical that included that
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 10 months ago
In Australia we had conscription in WW2 where the Citizen Military Force could only operate in Australia… but they changed it to include PNG so I guess your skepticism is justified. Then for Vietnam and Korea (why were we involved???) we had conscription for overseas.
Miaou@jlai.lu 10 months ago
I think you just described most military services actually