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6 months agoOther countries considering a bad idea doesn’t make it a good idea.
This isn’t talking specifically about the UK, and nor was I.
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Don’t worry, you don’t need to admit you were wrong for you to be wrong.
Other countries considering a bad idea doesn’t make it a good idea.
“Conscription is always a bad idea” is an objectively incorrect sentiment.
In a war, the bulk of Finland’s force will be made up of conscripts. Or more accurately, people who were conscripts.
The career military men will be the officers. If you look at their officer to non officer ratio in peacetime it will be absolutely bananas compared to the UK’s. Because if they do get invaded by Russia, they’ll immediately call up their reserves (which due to conscription is their entire eligible population) and the ratios will make more sense.
Because their long term military strategy changed.
Conscription makes perfect sense if you’re setting yourself up to fight a defensive war. E.g., Finland’s entire military is more or less built for a defensive war against Russia, so they conscript.
Because they built it into their long term strategy, like I said in my original comment.
Germany used to conscript, because there was this thing called the USSR that represented a very real and existential threat right next door. Then that stopped being the case, so their long term doctrine changed from defensive to expeditionary, so they stopped conscripting.
Given that expeditionary wars in the middle east are becoming a bit faux pas, and “being invaded by your neighbour” is back in fashion, I imagine more places will shift doctrine again and conscription will start seeing a return. Then again it might not because of how fundamentally unpopular it is with the population.
And the military leadership of every country where conscription is a thing disagrees with you.
All it dose is create ill motivated unskilled labour.
If you think military conscription is for the here and now you unfortunately don’t know what you’re talking about.
Conscription is so that if you need to mobilise quickly, all of your eligible population are already trained, have units to report to, officers etc.
If you’re building a defensive military, it makes perfect sense, because in a defensive war motivation more or less ceases to be an issue.
The UK’s military is far more expeditionary, so it doesn’t make sense unless you build it into your long term plan, which is exactly what I said in my original comment.
Conscription isn’t fundamentally a bad idea it just needs to be built into your long term defense strategy
2·6 months agoa doctor is helping non-relatives far more than relatives, his contribution is not selected for.
Which is the whole point of my comment…
Natural selection is an agent that runs contrary to the thing which is currently out-competing natural selection, that being big brain thinkering
E.g., if a cancer research scientist dies from a weak heart, that will reduce future life expectancy more than it will increase it
31·6 months ago“culture friction” because people don’t like it when the players of a game cheat?
Dragging American troops into another war in the middle east is probably one of the few things Trump’s base wouldn’t accept from him
7·7 months agoThat’s locked behind the battle pass
Using sudo costs in game currency
Early access in a controlled environment is a really good way to make sure people don’t fall down rabbit holes.
Obviously it depends how old, but if you block a specific website it’s only a matter of time before they work out a way around the block
281·7 months agoI’d be surprised if Windows 11 didn’t still have bill’s code in it
Largely, but I was responding to the specific sentence I highlighted.
The UK has favored a doctrine of a small, well trained, professional army since before WW1. It’s also tended to be more expeditionary. Both of these conflict with the benefits of conscription.
That doesn’t mean it’s an outright superior system. It has its own drawbacks and benefits compared with alternative systems. Sometimes you send that force into a meatgrinder because the fighting calls for more manpower than it can supply, regardless of technology. It depends on the war you’re fighting.
Weirdly enough, fighting a defensive, existential war tends to solve the motivation problem pretty quicky.
Also, if you’re calling up previously conscripted troops when shit hits the fan, they will have been trained for far, far longer than if you try to enlarge the size of your fighting force from scratch.
I feel like your knowledge of conscription comes entirely from the Red Alert 2 unit of the same name. Don’t confuse peace time conscription with war time conscription. They’re incredibly different things.
You’re really just running down the bingo board of one-liners that betray a complete unfamiliarity with what you’re trying to talk about.
No military budget is infinite. You decide the type of military you want to build, and you build it in the most effective way possible. Sometimes conscription fits in with that. Sometimes it doesn’t.
Tick another one off the bingo board.
We’re talking about conscription in peace time.
That’s literally what a military is.
Conscripts receive the same training as career professionals.
Why wouldn’t it result in a ground war? NATO isn’t going to want to escalate into full apocalypse unless they absolutely have to.
There’s a reason the UK didn’t nuke Argentina when it took the Falklands.
The UK’s two most recent trident tests both failed.