The Pentagon is reportedly considering a range of options to end the Iran conflict, including a controversial US Army student loans enlistment program that would see Americans offered Pentagon debt relief in exchange for military service
Drafted soldiers were fragging their officers in Vietnam. Better the unit potentially catch a charge back home than everyone get torture-killed in VC pit traps. I imagine you’d see much of the same with a modern conscript army and in fact I’m pretty sure the laundry fires and plumbing failures in the US Navy were just such events.
Isn’t that how we usually do it?
No, this is basically debt bondage where they’d stat to conscript people.
Ohhhh shit, ok, i don’t believe we’ve done that since before the revolutionary war
… doesn’t really seem like a wise way to get loyal soldiers, but perhaps we’re due for another revolution
Drafted soldiers were fragging their officers in Vietnam. Better the unit potentially catch a charge back home than everyone get torture-killed in VC pit traps. I imagine you’d see much of the same with a modern conscript army and in fact I’m pretty sure the laundry fires and plumbing failures in the US Navy were just such events.
feels like that’s where things are headed
Yeah, it’s been morally justifiable for an extremely long time, but the masses are only now beginning to see through the wool.
I think the oligarchs may have overplayed their hand.
yeah, you can only push people so far
Nah, it’s usually the promise of paying for college, not paying it back.
You’re right