Switzerland goes to the polls this weekend to vote for the third time in two decades on whether to abolish compulsory military service.
Campaigners raised the 100,000 signatures necessary to force a referendum.
Swiss prepare to vote in referendum on abolishing military service | euronews, world news
Go to the link, watch the video, it's just 1min long.
My opinion is that the draft is stupid these days. A professional army is always better. Then again, the military can help center a man, bring discipline and balance, or so I am told.
The draft was abolished in my country a few years before I got to be 18 and when I was 18 the law was that if I go to college, I don't have to go mandatory military service. And ofc, I went to college and became an engineer. But I am registered with a division. So until the age of 26 (or 28 I think) I can be called to serve as an officer (because I have a college degree). Now it's not even this, it's just... pure volunteer army much like most of Europe and the USA. If you turn 18 and drop out of school, you don't have to serve in the army as mandated by law... which I think it's wrong.
The best way is the way I described. You turn 18, if you're not in an education facility you go to do military service for 1 year and then you're free. This will encourage people to go to college and get an education... and if not, then you may be a punk and could do with some discipline.
The Swiss should build up their navy.
The Swiss should build up their navy.
They can already make a black hole whenever they want with the Hadron Collider. What other superweapon do you want?
Abolishing military service right now, when we are at the brink of war, is stupid. May be in 5 or 10 years time.eace
No need for outdated and vulnerable surface warships, I hear the Swiss have a secret nuclear submarine fleet that's so quiet and so undetectable you won't find any images or reference on the internet or anywhere.
If that's so, how did you hear it?
Who are the Swiss on the brink of war with?
Who are the Swiss on the brink of war with?
WW3. We'll know in a few months.
Tardiness. It's been a brutal war that lasted for centuries now. So far the swiss have won every battle but the enemy's forces are limitless... they keep on coming and coming, trying to poke holes in the Swiss anti-tardiness resistance.
It is especially problematic since just south of their border, in Italy, tardiness has massive popularity and recruitment camps.
I live in the capital of tardiness; we call it mañana. It will win! .
Not yet, it won't.
So, you reckon the Swiss will get involved in a major conflagration when they've stayed out of all the others?
They may not participate, but that's no reason to put guns down. The times are hard.
It's an excellent reason. Why do you think they, and the likes of Costa Rica are the most prosperous nations in their respective geographical regions?
I don't know, care to explain.
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