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  I spent 2 weeks in high school in Taiwan as a part of a foreign exchange program. This seems like a natural step since their schools have many militaristic elements. For all school assemblies the school I visited would line up in columns carrying flags like you would see in the military. The school also had a member of the military on staff and seemed to lead a pretty intense ROTC program. The military was also fairly visible and everywhere because they were on edge. This was all in 2019 I imagine this has all gotten more intense since then
context: I don't mind compulsory military service, in Greece it's also one year. What I do mind is when you spend 97% of your time doing jack shit and 3% of your time actually training and whatnot. I'd rather have 4 months of more intense military boot camp than a year of looking at the ceiling and considering moving to the Netherlands. >
  
  Most conscript militaries lack in terms of doctrine, not duration. 
   When most of the time is spent on indoctrination and doing regimental shit, with little focus on practicality, theres no point in lengthening the term of service, just a waste of time >
  
  I always wondered why the duration foe some conscripts militaries was so short. 1 year to 18 months seems reasonable...4 months shockingly short >
  
  4 months honestly is good enough if its just condensed into practical things like phyiscal training,  marksmanship with only essential fieldcraft like first aid. 
  To me, the ideal conscript is something like the average gun tuber. But most countries who use conscription implement it as a form of indoctrination,  not for actual fighting soo >
  
  I guess that makes sense. I can only relate it to my US Army basic training.....24 years ago....fuck om getting old. But that was at the infantry school so it seemed pretty intense to teenage me >
  
  Of course, the strength of the US military lies in its doctrine. Every army has the fair share of BS regimentation and indoctrination, but at least in US troops do get significantly more range time and phyiscal training. >
  
  The one time I got to train with non Americans...
  And this was in 2000 mind you....it was with Germans back when they still had conscripts... at that time we did have better training ths. The guys we Bundesweher guys we worked with.