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Originally Posted by Schroeder
Not just the tanks. The fighterbombers are also getting drastically reduced. No need for airpower on a modern battlefield...
The draft can't be upheld if only a handful of people really get drafted. It's unfair. However I don't see how an army without the draft could grow to sufficient numbers quickly enough if the brown stuff should ever hit the fan again.
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But Naumann has some good arguments in defense of drafting. I was not aware that such a big ammount of pros were recruited from conscripts, for example - that means to raise a personell pool much easier and economically than the expensive recruiting efforts certain propfessijanl armies must conduct. what he said on the need that a CO cannot afford to rely on his stars, but must earn the trust of his subordinates newly every time new draftees are coming, also made sense to me.