The Military Training Issue: History Denies the Wisdom of Compulsory Military Service in Peacetime

Authors

Harold E. Barto, Central Washington University

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

Educational Foundations and Curriculum

Publication Date

1-1-1946

Abstract

This is a documented brief on peacetime concription. The study is limited to France and Germany only, because: a. These two states have been the chief exponents of this form of military service. b. One represents a democracy; the other represents an autocracy. c. Of the author's desire to keep it short enough in length so that very busy men and women may find time to read it carefully, in its entirety. The experience of other European states, whose peacetime conscript armies were put to the test of war, are, in general, strikingly similar to those of France and Germany. This is not a brief for pacifism.

Comments

This article was originally published in Washington Education Journal.

Recommended Citation

Barto, H. E. (1946). The Military Training Issue: History Denies the Wisdom of Compulsory Military Service in Peacetime. Washington Education Journal, 25(4), 114-115.

Journal

Washington Education Journal