Another one is the idea that military service means everyone will have to fight in a war. This is just untrue. frontline infantry are only a small minority of total military personnel, and In most militaries, those are usually picked among volunteers. A modern military requires an enormous apparatus for logistics and support, quite possible, and even easy, to spend it’s done by soldiers who are never shot at. Nowadays an entire military career without ever seeing battle. At the height of Vietnam there were the War, eight support soldiers for each frontline soldier. Even in Israel, a country which is in a perpetual state of low-level warfare, only a minority of conscripts ever see battle. For most people, military service merely involves wearing ugly green and running around in the muck while a guy yells at you. Turn Libertarianism is exploited to promote empire the volunteer military has – – promoted intervention Mehr, 2008 British journalist with multiple publications – [Nathaniel, Nathaniel Mehr is a leftwing British journalist whose has written for several publications including The Morning Star newspaper and Tribune magazine and Red Pepper, Conscription Is The Antidote To Militarism And Imperialism, London Progressive Journal, March 28 2008, , Accessed July 6th 2016] [Premier] analysts underestimated the scale of disaster. Those who, prior to 2003, warned of a Vietnam-style catastrophe in Iraq, the conscripts in Vietnam were drawn from all of society. For the who served sections civil Integrated into the social life of their disaffection permeated US society exerted a powerful motive the country, eventually and force in the peace demise of conscription, apparently motivated by decent liberal notions of movement in that country. The respect for personal autonomy, has been very positive from voluntarism and in actual fact a development the point of imperialism. view of
Another one is the idea that military service means everyone will have to fight in a war. This is just untrue. In most militaries, frontline infantry are only a small minority of total military personnel, and those are usually picked among volunteers. A modern military requires an enormous apparatus for logistics and support, done by soldiers who are never shot at. Nowadays it’s quite possible, and even easy, to spend an entire military career without ever seeing battle. At the height of the Vietnam War, there were eight support soldiers for each frontline soldier. Even in Israel, a country which is in a perpetual state of low-level warfare, only a minority of conscripts ever see battle. For most people, military service merely involves wearing ugly green and running around in the muck while a guy yells at you. Turn – Libertarianism is exploited to promote empire – the volunteer military has promoted intervention Mehr, 2008 – British journalist with multiple publications [Nathaniel, Nathaniel Mehr is a leftwing British journalist whose has written for several publications including The Morning Star newspaper and Tribune magazine and Red Pepper, Conscription Is The Antidote To Militarism And Imperialism, London Progressive Journal, March 28 2008, , Accessed July 6th 2016] [Premier] Those analysts who, prior to 2003, warned of a Vietnam-style catastrophe in Iraq, underestimated the scale of the disaster. For the conscripts who served in Vietnam were drawn from all sections of civil society. Integrated into the social life of the country, their disaffection eventually permeated US society and exerted a powerful motive force in the peace movement in that country. The demise of conscription, apparently motivated by decent liberal notions of voluntarism and respect for personal autonomy, has in actual fact been a very positive development from the point of view of imperialism.
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