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Originally Posted by Betonov

In my country there is actually a petition to disband the entire army. I would signid it IF the slovenian army was the last in the world. Plus, with a 10% unemployment rate (100 000 people) would be a bad idea to put another 5000 on that statistic

Same here. The service time for draftees has just been reduced to six month which means that the "soldiers" can't do much more than clean their gun and the basics of operating more complicated equipment.
But most people here take it for absolutely granted that the world is peaceful and that we don't need armed forces since there is a world full of friends around us.

There is a saying here which goes: The price for peace is eternal watchfulness.