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The Effects of Conscription on British Foreign Policy

Those images of the body bags returning to where was it wouldn't pass yet they would come back and that is clearly affected British foreign policy. Without Iraq and Afghanistan and the returning body bags you wouldn't have got the vote against intervention in Syria, he says. "A bombing ISIS from 20 000 feet is a much easier self the public than boots on the ground yeah" He adds: "Conscription actually mobilizing more people into fighting in wars than the professional army by itself yields is out of the question."

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