[kronos77]

Switch back to recruit Army, leaving only elite units professional.

The military has no interest in this, and rightfully so. The age of large conscript armies has passed.

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Not true.
We Serbs hade conscript army and we withstood NATO arial campaign for 78 (seventy eight) days and withdrew from Kosovo only after orders from Belgrade.
At the time we hade 150,000 soldiers in Kosovo alone.
georgians hade 13,000 in Ossetia attack....

[Citizen Blade]

And Saddam Hussein had one of the biggest conscript armies in the world, and it got carved to pieces by a much smaller professional force.

[rbmillerjr]

“We Serbs hade conscript army and we withstood NATO arial campaign for 78 (seventy eight) days and withdrew from Kosovo only after orders from Belgrade.”

LOl, that was nothing, we could have put you guys into the stoneage if we had wanted to. But this would have been enjoyed by Serbians so I’m glad we didn’t.