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I seem to remember a couple articles by Army Generals that specifically thought mandatory service is a real problem given budgets and discipline problems. They
by protomyth 8y ago
I seem to remember a couple articles by Army Generals that specifically thought mandatory service is a real problem given budgets and discipline problems. They want people motivated to be there. It apparently got fairly bad in the 70's.
- CalChris 8y agoWell, there was that whole Vietnam War thing going on. That might have had something to do with it. The Vietnam War was much worse for us than Iraq+Afghanistan combined. Ten times worse. We lost 60,000 and had 300,000 wounded in Vietnam. In Afghanistan, we lost 2,419 and had 19,950 wounded. In Iraq, we had 4,496 and 32,252 wounded. It was a stupid meat grinder and after a decade, do you think soldiers wanted to be there?
- protomyth 8y agoI'm pretty sure the papers took it into account. I still cannot find the things, but they mostly were talking about non-Vietnam troops. I remember Germany being mentioned. I'm well aware of Vietnam as it didn't go too well for some of my relatives.