Re: [Marxism] Conscript army abolished in Sweden

[Einde O'Callaghan <eindeoc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joonas Laine wrote:
> Sweden has taken the decisive step in the process of transforming its
> conscript army into a professional one, and focusing more on
> international "crisis management" and "peace keeping" tasks. Sweden is
> not a member of Nato, and even though my impression is that in Sweden
> there is no such push towards Nato membership as there is in Finland
> within the government parties, this move nevertheless makes Sweden more
> Nato compatible.
> 
I'm not certain that I follow your argument about the relationship 
between the ending of conscription and NATO compatibility. When NATO was 
set up all the countries in it had conscript armies. Germany today still 
has a conscript army and it is quite compatible with participating in 
NATO's imperialist adventures abroad - Afghanistan and the "anti-piracy" 
flotilla off the coast of Somalia being cases in point.

Einde O'Callaghan

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