We talk to ForcesWatch’s founders David Gee and Emma Sangster, about recruitment and militarism in the UK and some of ForcesWatch’s key outputs over the years. Join us as we discuss:
- How and why ForcesWatch began
- The lack of ‘informed choice’ in the military’s enlistment of minors
- How we define militarism
- How militaristic the UK is compared to other countries, and why
- Turning war into spectacle
- The long-term risks and harms of the military’s recruitment of minors
- Military training - turning young civilians into soldiers
- The international context of the UK’s recruitment of minors
- Military (and wider defence industry) influence in education
- The ‘Take Action on Militarism’ resource
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