Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by rodgerd on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:10PM
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> Conscription seems counter-productive to me.
"The Chiefs of Staff do not want a conscripted mob of punks, freaks, and junkies and riff-radd, a quarter of a million hooligans on its hands with nothing to do except peel potatoes at Aldershot. The generals are afraid that this would turn it into an ordinary army. [Like the one that won World Wars I and II - Ed.]"
- The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker
"The Chiefs of Staff do not want a conscripted mob of punks, freaks, and junkies and riff-radd, a quarter of a million hooligans on its hands with nothing to do except peel potatoes at Aldershot. The generals are afraid that this would turn it into an ordinary army. [Like the one that won World Wars I and II - Ed.]"
- The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker