If lots of people are starving but the army is well fed you would expect plenty of people to want to join the army.
Right, but why would the army want to pay them? I would not be surprised if the army had some sort of physical standards that the destitute were unlikely to meet.
I would not be surprised if the army had some sort of physical standards that the destitute were unlikely to meet.
If this were true it would mostly explain my confusion, although I would still expect that fear of future starvation would push many parents to get their healthy sons to enlist.
I would still expect that fear of future starvation would push many parents to get their healthy sons to enlist.
Future is uncertain. You have to balance your sons’ chances of dying from starvation against their chances of being ordered to march into the Teutoburg Forest...
Right, but why would the army want to pay them? I would not be surprised if the army had some sort of physical standards that the destitute were unlikely to meet.
If this were true it would mostly explain my confusion, although I would still expect that fear of future starvation would push many parents to get their healthy sons to enlist.
Future is uncertain. You have to balance your sons’ chances of dying from starvation against their chances of being ordered to march into the Teutoburg Forest...