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Originally posted by Anubis@Dec 12 2004, 06:40 PM
I agree that you don't need nationalism or patriotism to make a war, but you need them to convince people to fight for you, and it helps in doing it on large scale.
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Sorry to say that it's not like that!
Look a most wars in the middle ages. They were fought between different monarchs - they all wanted power and land.
The armies were either of forced peasants - that were obkliged to join their lord's army if htey wanted to keep the land they were working on, or the armies were made up of mercenerites. No patriotism what-so-ever.
Now-a-days there are more and more armies that don't use conscription any more - they became paid armies and being a soldier is a job. So sooner or latter these armies will become merceneries again. Just look at american armed forces. How many neglected minority members join the army to get a better education, a steady job,... It's got nothing to do with patriotism!!!