I’m doubtful. Conscript soldiers are great for filling trenches; for specialized and technical fields that first world armies like the UK and rest of NATO employ, it’s not nearly as useful. The training is simply too involved and time consuming.
Britons should prepare for conscription if Russia hits Nato, warns ex-Army chief
Submitted 1 year ago by GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/britons-prepare-conscription-russia-nato-2923880
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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 year ago
How does one prepare for conscription? Keep a bag packed, just in case?
skeezix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is bullshit. There will be no war between NATO and Russia of the type that needs Britons to conscript. Russia has few meat sacks left to send into any war. Having sacrificed 350,000 of its youth in Ukraine, Russia is scraping then bottom of the barrel for chumps willing the have their guts splattered on distant frozen farm fields. Russia now has to resort to mining prisons and third world countries for troops. What remains of Russia’s war materiel (tanks, vehicles, etc) is antiquated. When it comes to conventional warfare, Russia is a joke.
Now nukes and missles on the other hand, that’s a different story. Russia has plenty of them. But again, if Russia hits NATO with something like that, retaliation is like-for-like, and no foot soldiers are needed.
But it won’t come to that because in spite of Russia’s blustering and the media’s fear mongering, Russia knows that such a strike on nato would mean the end of Russia. And Russia wants to continue to exist.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Russia will not be seeking to get a firm NATO response in the form of troops mobilised; they will be seeking to carefully undermine confidence in article 5 with small offenses that “should” trigger it but (they hope) don’t, causing fractures in the alliance that will allow them to be more brazen. They don’t want to deal with blocs of countries, they have more leverage in 1:1 negotiations and will seek ways to force more of these on NATO members.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here they are doing drills:
Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Guess I’m going to jail then
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Undecided on going to jail or enthusiastically joining the sappers and using their resources for some :adventure-time:
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Nah. You’d make excellent cannon fodder.
rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Fuck right off
lntl@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
best of luck to ya
sirico@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Why you’re ex my lad
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 year ago
That will be down to the UK government not NATO.
It is certainly possible. But our current military leaders have made it vlear in the past,
1 career milatary volunteer is worth 100s of untrained forced fighters.
The cost of training huge numbers of conscripted fighters. When fighting a modern battle. Is not going to be the first choice of our military by any means. Moving from a total voluntary army to conscription would take a huge change in our forces. More so then the US that at least still keeps records suitable for drafting young fighters.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t know about you guys but anyone close to Russia probably understands the usefulness of conscription.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Given russia has taken 2 years to fail to win a war it expected to win overnight. And it conscription draws from a population 3 x the size of the Ukraine. Most would be less then impressed with the effectiveness of forced labour fighting in a nation they do not care about. Vs people defending their own home.
And that has been the point the UK military leaders have argued in the past. Conscription is only effective when folks need to defend their family. Not fight for political/ politicians gain.