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NotThamesWater
The overall spirit of the last 20 or so comments is a bit one sided. Your argument seems to be that exposing more youngsters to army training will fill society with more aggressive psychopaths. Could it not be the other way? That in expanding the recruitment base one would succeed in including more normal people, as opposed to just the weirdos, which could make for a 'softer' more level headed army.
My own observations in 2003, when the US and the UK were drumming up support for the invasion of Iraq, was that countries with national service were more reluctant to join.