Benefits Of Mandatory Military Conscription

Mandatory military service, which is also known as military conscription, should be mandatory in the United States. Military conscription, a very tentative, subject among our country, have some who are for it, including all the benefits it has to offer and some who are extremely against it wholeheartedly. Many governments in history have used this strategy to build a large and powerful military that will be ready and developed in times of war and distraught. For example, the Qin Empire of China in 221 BC and the France during the French Revolution in the 1790s; Iran, Greece, Russia, South Korea, and Egypt are some of the countries that still use this tactic.
Consequently, mandatory military service violates free will, the one’s joining have

no final say whether they want to or not. Additionally, it interferes with other forms of education because they take them in at the peak of their learning abilities, which is eighteen, delaying them for pursuit of higher education for the individual; furthermore, it puts younger lives in danger. Casualties do not just happen during combat or in the battle field, but during training. Military conscription requires every citizen to join and serve with the armed forces nevertheless, not everyone is cut for it. For example, if one has any physical, psychological, or mental issues, they may not meet the criteria of the mental, physical, and emotional demands of the job. Anxiety and depression are factors that should be carefully considered within the group of adolescence joining. Killing someone is taken differently from every person that was drafted into the military; a study conducted by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America showed that approximately 40,000 members of the military in which returned from the Iraq and Afghanistan war suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD.