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Conscription is resurging across Europe. Is that a good thing? (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tal@kbin.social to c/europe@feddit.de

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Does conscription mean sending poorly trained, disgruntled young people into battle, or can it encourage civic duty and help defend Europe?

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[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

But if Iraq actually had the strong air defenses, the war would have looked much different as you said. You cannot operate modern AA systems with conscripts. Those are professional capeabilities. And again i dont say to leave systems unguarded without infantry. but 10 professional soldiers make short work of 30 conscripted ones. Again there is plenty of videos from the current war in Ukraine, where russian conscripts lose against much smaller numbers of professional ukrainian soldiers.