It's healthy to not want to fight, says General Sir Richard Barrons, but young British people may realise they have to be conscripted if war erupts between Nato and Russia
  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    That will be down to the UK government not NATO.

    It is certainly possible. But our current military leaders have made it clear in the past,

    1 career milatary volunteer is worth 100s of untrained forced fighters.

    The cost of training huge numbers of conscripted fighters. When fighting a modern battle. Is not going to be the first choice of our military by any means. Moving from a total voluntary army to conscription would take a huge change in our forces. More so then the US that at least still keeps records suitable for drafting young fighters.

  • jabjoe@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Thing will be, will the population support this? Do they care enough about countries not their own? It will probably be Poland, do people care enough about Poland to get fired up to fight? Nationalism/Brexit/racism has been demonizing Pols as both taking our jobs and scrounging benefits. Plus Russia is whispering in their social media feeds and so they don't think Russia is that bad. We're in a right old state.

  • TWeaK@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    The great Tory plan to just kill off and thin the heard rather than address the social issues they've caused.

    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
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      4 months ago

      If I were PM I'd be annoyed I couldn't fire him for this, but I see in the article a link to the current outgoing head of the army saying the same thing.

      I guess the Tories are so weak now the war nuts think they can get away with this kind of talk.

      https://inews.co.uk/news/military-conscription-uk-how-likely-2870708?ico=in-line_link