>>508519609> Conscription during peace time when there is no immediate existential threat is extremely retarded and just a waste of time.You’re extremely unwise if you actually think this. Conscription during peace time gives huge numbers of the population a familiarity with war, how it functions, how they get started, and how they end. It gives real world knowledge of the power structures.
Do you think large percentages of Swiss voters having military experience is completely unrelated to Switzerland’s hundreds of years of peace?
Wars are always political shitshow theaters first and foremost. When a country has a population that has no real idea of war, it’s easy to lead them into it, over and over.