Conscription.

[Workingman]

Yes, that will solve all our war problems.

Oiks with guns to repel an invader (Russia) a sort of lads (and lasses) army - dads and mums are invited.

OK, so how will they protect the thousands of square kilometers of our offshore windmills, our power supply? A few destroyed North Sea interconnects will do us in. We do not have a navy to stop them. Where will the food come from? We don't produce enough. And what if Russia uses nukes? Where will be hit: London, Birmingham. Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds...?

How will the conscripts cope?

I sense a lot of gaslighting in all of this. Alone we cannot repel an invader, we need (NATO) to stand together, and even then, nothing is certain.

We need to talk.

[cromwell]

It worries me that all of a sudden we have people in authority saying that we will be at war with Russia inside 20 years.
Where has this come from?
As for conscription, as if!
It's not 1939 any more. We aren't a homogenous united nation. Try and call them up and half the country would vanish.

[TheOstrich]

I sometimes wish, having read the DM, that half the country would vanish.

Might solve a lot of problems.

[Kaz]

I think we need professional forces to protect our country, not reluctant kids

[Workingman]

We certainly need enough to initially hold the line until we can train up others, same as the World Wars.

Conscription is not the answer, but a volunteer reserve might be.

[Kaz]

Yes, because volunteers want to be there.

[Workingman]

There is an old saying in military circles that one volunteer is worth ten pressed men. I imagine that still stands.

[Suff]

There is an old saying in military circles that one volunteer is worth ten pressed men. I imagine that still stands.

It does. Although life has become so soft that the volunteers have no idea what they are signing up for.

Anyone who wants to volunteer should spend a week in Ukraine.

[cromwell]

A volunteer reserve sounds like a good idea.

It still worries me though, that out of the blue so many generals are talking about war.

[cruiser2]

I am old enough to have done National Service.

Most of us enjoyed it afterthe initial square bashing. Can't see many young men voluinteering and training to be soldiers and obeying commands.

Teachersin schools cannot control children so what chance will Sergent Majors have with teen agers