Re: [GZG] Troop potential

-----Original Message-----
> From: John Tailby <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz>
> 
>  > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Robert Mayberry robert.mayberry@gmail.com [1]
>  > I wonder whether the use of peacetime conscription changes a
> > country's culture appreciably? I'm inclined to say it should, but I
haven't
> > seen anything on it.
> 
> Yes, the unemployed gang members now have military tactics training,
> more experience with weapons and possibly more reason to hate society.
> Now they have the skills to do something about it. Definately a
> culture change for the better.   

This is only an issue where 'unemployed gang members' are a problem in
the first place and where they have easy access to military type
weapons.

I don't think military-trained criminal gangs have ever been a serious
problem in the European countries that have a draft, nor in the US at
the time when they had conscription.  

A highly unusual exception happened a few years ago when Hell's Angels
in Sweden (or was it Denmark ?) fought their turf wars with Bazookas

Plus, in modern forces, most recruits don't learn that much about
tactics that are useful in gang warfare. Maintaining a tank engine in a
ghetto war ?

Greetings
Karl Heinz

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