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I strongly suspect it's because they hate German people.
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I grew up in a country with national service and there was none of that romanticism. Everyone's dad had a military rank and could shoot a gun etc, these things were normal everyday stuff basically.
For that reason alone I reckon having a professional army is iffy. A drafted army is supposedly less effective as a deterrent, according to those who know this stuff, but IMO it's less corrosive on civil society at large.
That being said I dodged the draft when it was my time ....
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There's a lot of that military fetishism at Ukip and Britain First and pro-Brexit rallies; anyone identified as having been a soldier gets loads of 'thank you for your service'. I always want to ask them why, if they feel so strongly about the armed services, so few of them ever joined up. But, you know...