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SwissChap
starfish&coffee
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 ....