This security is, however, inseparable from the restrictions on liberty and the hierarchical order of military life-it is the security of the barracks.
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This is the only system in which the individual can be conceded full economic security and through the extension of which to the whole of society it can be achieved for all its members.
The conflict with which we have to deal is indeed a quite fundamental one between two irreconcilable types of social organization, which, from the most characteristic forms which they appear, have often been described as the commercial and the military type of society … The army does indeed in many ways represent the closest approach familiar to us to the second type of organization, where work and worker alike are allotted by authority and where, if the available means are scanty, everybody is alike put on short commons. The end of conscription has been a central and unexplored element of the dismantling of “universalism” in the realm of social policy, the introduction of workfare, the militarization of social welfare, and the reintroduction of notions of a deserving and undeserving poor. In the context of the broader restructuring of work and welfare, neoliberal “social” policy is increasingly militarized, targeted towards socially and spatially marginal soldiers who work for their welfare. This reconfiguration of the state's biopolitical right to take its citizens' lives for national defense has contributed in important but understudied ways to the contemporary polarization of citizenship. Through debates about conscription, they came to distinguish themselves from both contemporary Keynesian alternatives and classic liberal thinkers. The end of conscription was something of a “first victory” for the early neoliberals, and as such, it was a key project through which they defined neoliberal notions of freedom and models of citizenship. Friedman conceptualized conscription as a form of tax, quantified its cost to individuals, and slated its practice to be dismantled. In their quest to liberate citizens from big government, Milton Friedman and friends theorized the state's right to take life as a fundamental political problem.
It examines how scholars of the “Chicago School” worked towards the termination of the draft through the 1960s, as foundational to their fight for (individual, economic) freedom. When the Nordic Battle Group becomes operational in 2011 there will be a clamour among the supporters of the militarisation of the EU which was consolidated by the Lisbon Treaty to send it to help out in that particular "humanitarian war".This paper investigates the termination of conscription in the United States as a neoliberal project to reconstruct national citizenship.
Finland has increased the number of troops it has sent there. All the states in the EU Nordic Battle Group, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden already have troops taking part in the Afghanistan war. They were designed to go into battle, to go to war. The truth, however, is the EU political elite and its media knew exactly what they were doing when they established the Battle Groups. If the EU wants to help in humanitarian crises, then it seems only logical that it should have created a group designed for such in the first place. In fact, since the equipment of the EU Nordic Battle Groups includes CV combat vehicles, mowag Piranha troop carriers, Bofors AT4 light anti-tank weapons, Psg 90 sniper rifles and JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft I think it is only more than reasonable to state that the whole point of an EU Battle Group is to go into battle. Exactly what role tanks and heavily armed troops play in helping out in floods is not clear. While I will have to stop myself from making any remarks about armchair generals, I have to point out that the pictures of the training exercises above the article include heavily armed soldiers and a tank. He apparently thought of this idea while sitting on his sofa. It includes a suggestion by its Commander, Gen Jan Stefan Andersson that it could be deployed to help with natural disasters and humanitarian crises. The Irish Times(September 22nd) carried a report on the Irish Army training to participate with the European Union Nordic Battle Group.
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