You could train them, obviously. My point was that when people think of “joining the military” they aren’t thinking about a defensive war - which is true. So “the military” is, overall, pretty bad. (Some might argue a necessary evil, perhaps, but it’s still bad.)
The logistics of what you’d replace the current system with are beyond the scope of “is the military bad?”
I would argue that the vast majority of people think that joining the military is about defensive war. There is a reason that military enlistment skyrockets in a country after that country has been attacked by a foreign source.
Generally a government must convince its populace that a war not taking place on its own soil is still defensive, because offensive war isn’t palatable to the vast majority of people.
You could train them, obviously. My point was that when people think of “joining the military” they aren’t thinking about a defensive war - which is true. So “the military” is, overall, pretty bad. (Some might argue a necessary evil, perhaps, but it’s still bad.)
The logistics of what you’d replace the current system with are beyond the scope of “is the military bad?”
I would argue that the vast majority of people think that joining the military is about defensive war. There is a reason that military enlistment skyrockets in a country after that country has been attacked by a foreign source.
Generally a government must convince its populace that a war not taking place on its own soil is still defensive, because offensive war isn’t palatable to the vast majority of people.