Day 1,704: Conscription, bicker

Conscription is expensive and ineffective, but Europe could learn from Nordic countries like Finland and Sweden, which maintain large reserves. European armies try to pool their orders for equipment, but those with defence industries often bicker over whether their companies have a fair share of the business.

Europe is caught between Putin and Trump

Artwork of the day 
Unionists throughout the Confederate States, including Germans, resisted the imposition of conscription in
Currier and Ives
Date: 1862
Style: Romanticism
Genre: caricature

Word of the day 
Conscription: the act or process of forcing people by law to join the armed services:
bicker: to argue about things that are not important:

Quote of the day
“War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.”

― Murray N. Rothbard