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Originally Posted by August
I've always thought a universal conscription for national service would be a good thing for us to adopt too, but regardless of the system, the key I think is that a nations military stays connected with it's people.
As long as we are them and they are us there can be trust.
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Given your large foreign commitments you would have to have a combination system. You could give the training duty to the National Guard. You could have some 1.500.000 men serving per year from 9 to 12 months. They could enter service two times a year, January and July. 1.500.000 allready served reservists could come to train each year for some 12 to 30 days depending of their MOS. The service lenght and refresher intervalls can be adjusted by the current threat level. That would make your reserve little over 20 million 18-35 years old trained men. Also a big recruitment pool for the regular army. You could have equipment for all of them or depending your need.
Im sure it would improve the social cohesion of any country.:hmm: