Shortfalls in some of the military services' recruiting goals for fiscal year 2023 demonstrate the challenges that lie ahead for the all-volunteer force, the Defense Department's acting undersecretary
This is an argument for being harsher, not kinder.
We don't get these people to quit by being nice to them. We get them to quit by making as many people as possible see it as morally reprehensible to be a troop.
Even if you have empathy for the ones that get tricked into it, the correct strategy to minimise it as much as possible is to be as harsh as possible about the troops and to build a social environment that inoculates the largest number of people possible.
It is simply the right strategy whether we acknowledge a small minority are fools or not. It's the right strategy to get those fools out and it's the right strategy to inoculate more of those fools before the military recruiting machine gets to them.
This is an argument for being harsher, not kinder.
We don't get these people to quit by being nice to them. We get them to quit by making as many people as possible see it as morally reprehensible to be a troop.
Even if you have empathy for the ones that get tricked into it, the correct strategy to minimise it as much as possible is to be as harsh as possible about the troops and to build a social environment that inoculates the largest number of people possible.
It is simply the right strategy whether we acknowledge a small minority are fools or not. It's the right strategy to get those fools out and it's the right strategy to inoculate more of those fools before the military recruiting machine gets to them.