question: they can scrape up conscripts from anywhere, and they do, like jails, BUT...
WHERE do they find the required medical personnel to minister to said conscripts?
strip them from hospitals???
a couple weeks learning to plug holes wi tampex isn’t going to help a sucking chest wound...
just sayin
And one might point out that it ain’t the real MASH
Import them from India & china. Both have surplus doctors, pharmaceuticals, medical techs. Major chunk of world’s people live in those 2 countries.
Have you ever been near a real war? Your question seems smart and pertinent and I do empathize with it ... and it certainly is humane ... but in the terrible calculus of an real existential war, it does not matter. Horrible, tragic, heart-wrenching, but sadly true that the badly wounded are out of the game and why waste resources on them you may or may not have? Yes, terrible. But reality.