Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Now of course the USA has a lot of experience with sending draftees far from home — starting with the Civil War and continuing through Vietnam. Uncle Sam always made sure to have the best-equipped and best-supplied force around. But the political legitimacy varied and mattered. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s one thing to try to rush poorly trained conscripts into battle to defend their homes but doing it to occupy a swathe of a foreign country seems like a hard sell from a unit cohesion standpoint. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alon_levy I don’t think the new conscripts are on the front yet. But contract soldiers seem set to be replaced by significantly lower quality formations. — PolitiTweet.org

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