You hit on the real answer should a large-scale, conventional kinetic war break out (esp. if prolonged) - conscription (+ costly financial enticements). But that world does not show up even as a slight possibility in domestic political calculations until things get much, much worse. It's hardly economically efficient, but then again war isn't.
Here in Spain, time ago, the family tend to send the old son to the Church, the middle to the State or Administration, and the third to the Army. In villages, the priest, the school teacher and the boss of the Guardia Civil were the main figures.
You show very well how poverty is not the only issue, even maybe it is the main: in Russia most recruits are from interior "oblasts", and I think that there is a huge mass of "latinos" in the United Satets. Exists also a kind of anti-militarism huge extended, at least in Spain, and I presume that in Europe (despite the growing militarism of Escandinavian, Polish, Baltics or the British on his island; it's easy to talk about war from an island). Also, it has lost attractive and sex-appeal. Now, the cool is to be anti-militarist and pacifist (people mix anti-militarism with pacifism, what can we do....). I didn't think on the physic state of people, but it is a very good point, because the manual job is decreasing a lot, with all the issues of diet and similar that are crazy in the US.
I just discover your blog, and let me say that this first article that I've read is very good. You are watching the same issue (the problems of recruitment), but you show to us that there are many different variables that affect this. This is how it should be attached a sociological issue as this.
You hit on the real answer should a large-scale, conventional kinetic war break out (esp. if prolonged) - conscription (+ costly financial enticements). But that world does not show up even as a slight possibility in domestic political calculations until things get much, much worse. It's hardly economically efficient, but then again war isn't.
Here in Spain, time ago, the family tend to send the old son to the Church, the middle to the State or Administration, and the third to the Army. In villages, the priest, the school teacher and the boss of the Guardia Civil were the main figures.
You show very well how poverty is not the only issue, even maybe it is the main: in Russia most recruits are from interior "oblasts", and I think that there is a huge mass of "latinos" in the United Satets. Exists also a kind of anti-militarism huge extended, at least in Spain, and I presume that in Europe (despite the growing militarism of Escandinavian, Polish, Baltics or the British on his island; it's easy to talk about war from an island). Also, it has lost attractive and sex-appeal. Now, the cool is to be anti-militarist and pacifist (people mix anti-militarism with pacifism, what can we do....). I didn't think on the physic state of people, but it is a very good point, because the manual job is decreasing a lot, with all the issues of diet and similar that are crazy in the US.
I just discover your blog, and let me say that this first article that I've read is very good. You are watching the same issue (the problems of recruitment), but you show to us that there are many different variables that affect this. This is how it should be attached a sociological issue as this.