One reason I support universal military conscription (for girls as well as boys) is that it would cause a lot of people to see that military power is not in fact the solution to every single problem, from border regulation to climate changehttps://thebaffler.com/latest/our-one-weird-trick-military …
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Think superfluous military power plays a larger role in our forever wars than the inequitable burdens of service. "What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?" Failure of conscription to dampen Israeli militarism comes to mind.
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True that the case of Israel goes against my argument; question is how analogous are we to them? And what about other countries, like Germany, that until recently had mandatory military service?
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Rather than guerilla warfare in the jungles of Vietnam, deployment to the border brings to mind low-risk military operations on the edge of Gaza. Similar issue with bombers 10,000 feet above Belgrade or drones over Yemen. Overwhelming military dominance w/ no analogue in Germany.
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By contrast, high-risk occupation of Iraq, which involved house to house fighting by American ground troops, was ultimately not politically sustainable.
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