Total War is a topic again, but Hitler style asking for a Volkssturm. At least noone demands yet. Actually, forced recruitement for war instead of national armed service should be banned as preparing a war crime and therefore internationaly banned. A possible line of argument would be that a declaration of legal war does not exist based on UN law, as no nation may attack anther nation.
Therefore, the attacking nation automatically comits a crime and should upfront be outlawed by UN law, if they further more recruite by force for armed service during war preparations.
Any nation defending still needs to relay on appropriately trained personal. Appropriate training is based on good motivation. All Special Forces are recruited from highly motivated soldiers understanding the task and having in most cases prior training even asking to join. In almost all elite soldier level units surrender and retreat decisions are decided by the comando soldiers themselves, while kill decisions sometimes do need comanding officers acknowledgement.
It would be a contradiction of having soldiers being responsible for each of their actions instead of the line of command and in the same time allowing any force of any nation to punish anyone refusing to take a place of which he understands to have to either kill or retreat, but will refuse an order at some point based on his own will and responsibility, predicatably. This is most likely in no home defence scenarios as it applies for all nations that hand out or allow weapon possession in their constitution as in Switzerland or the U.S.A, but in all nations in which after some training everyone no matter his confidence and will is forced to frontline service and possibly even threated with capital punishement when refusing attack orders or retreating from ordered positins on his own call, in a worst case scenario.
As predicatbly as elite soldiers understand their task they ask to sign up for every citizen of a nation that signed the UN human rights charta must understand, if he is mentaly, physically and confident enough to be ready for battle himself, and within such nation the authority must respect the indivudals decision as a whole.
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11:35 That you do not use them keeps us save. To have to have them is required evil against the bad to protect the good. As soon used we are no save nomore. Evil, Bad and Good.
