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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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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