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Decision-making in the armed forces is always performed by a "warrior class". The people who operate heavy war machinery are also career soldiers; conscripts ar
by david-gpu 1y ago
Decision-making in the armed forces is always performed by a "warrior class". The people who operate heavy war machinery are also career soldiers; conscripts are light infantry.
And there is a very real economic cost to mandatory military service. It only makes sense in the context of a small country (in terms of population) bordering a large aggressive neighbor, such as Finland or (possibly) Canada.
- impossiblefork 1y agoNo, conscripts operate also tanks and artillery. They also load and prepare combat aircraft. Artillery and tanks will have some kind of professional officer though.
- actionfromafar 1y agoArmed forces culture is also incredibly important. Goal/mission oriented organizations are harder to co-opt than top-down command structure organizations.