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Speaker 1: An interesting article in the Herald yesterday about army training

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Speaker 1: at Wayoudu the troops now singing from the same song sheet.

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Speaker 1: It seems as Winston and Judith in terms of how

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Speaker 1: threatening the world is at the moment. Senior army commanders

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Speaker 1: quoted as saying, the pressure on our defense force is

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Speaker 1: greater than at any time in recent living memory. And

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Speaker 1: they're betting billions. This is the government billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: and extra funding for equipment, for kit for houses on

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Speaker 1: the base that aren't covered in mold. But in order

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Speaker 1: for any of that to be useful, you need soldiers.

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Speaker 1: You need personnel. In order to get personnel, you need

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Speaker 1: people who understand the importance of the task at hand,

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Speaker 1: and I just don't think enough young people, people of

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Speaker 1: mind generation and younger actually get it. Look no further

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Speaker 1: than Germany, where they're protesting over a requirement for men

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Speaker 1: aged forty five and younger to inform the government of

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Speaker 1: their whereabouts if they leave the country for three months

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Speaker 1: or more. If they go on an oe, you've got

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Speaker 1: to tell the government where you're going. It's similar to

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Speaker 1: a rule they had during the Cold War, and it

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Speaker 1: is basically preparing for a time when they may need

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Speaker 1: a return to conscription compulsory service. Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Denmark, Finland,

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Speaker 1: to name a few, already do this. The Korean pop

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Speaker 1: band BTS you heard them before. They've just celebrated the

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Speaker 1: end of their military service with a concert and soul.

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Speaker 1: But overwhelmingly in the West, there is I don't know,

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Speaker 1: there's a bit of ignorance, would that be the word

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Speaker 1: antipathy of the threats that our leaders tell us we're facing.

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Speaker 1: It's like we don't quite believe that there are any

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Speaker 1: How could you teach the wellness generation, the influencer youths,

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Speaker 1: the zoomers as they call them, that in order to

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Speaker 1: enjoy the comforts of liberal democracy, sometimes you might have

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Speaker 1: to fight for them. You might have to make sacrifices

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Speaker 1: for them. We've not been to war, we've not experienced war.

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Speaker 1: We don't even want serious criminals, the criminal youths going

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Speaker 1: to boot camps, let alone us. There's a general feeling,

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Speaker 1: I think that wars are fought in far away lands

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Speaker 1: by somebody else, when evidence is mounting that one of

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Speaker 1: these wars might one day soon be fought closer to home,

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Speaker 1: and the others might actually be us for more from

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