While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, when taken together, are in fact vastly superior to America in terms of industrial capacity. This on its own would be an incredibly tough row to hoe, even at the best of times. The times, however, are not particularly good: the U.S. military currently finds itself in a state of acute crisis, beset by a number of intractable problems that neither the political nor military leadership have been able to solve...
They do it because they cant afford the manpower to do it themselves. European colonial powers did the same thing once their empires got big enough. Its just not as effective as it used to be. Soldiers in the modern day are super expensive to train and equip and it takes time too.
It’s Ukraines issue. Their conscripts are barely trained so they die faster, and eventually theres no one left to conscript.
They do it because they cant afford the manpower to do it themselves. European colonial powers did the same thing once their empires got big enough. Its just not as effective as it used to be. Soldiers in the modern day are super expensive to train and equip and it takes time too.
It’s Ukraines issue. Their conscripts are barely trained so they die faster, and eventually theres no one left to conscript.