But volunteers of Germany? Good luck.
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is moving ahead with reform plans to reduce the Bundeswehr to 165,000 soldiers, effectively turning it into a volunteer army.
This is a controversial move in Germany because, well, every move in Germany is a controversial move. OK, OK. At least the ones that have to do with the military are.
But like who cares? It’s not as if this new professional German army is ever going to be used for military purposes either. Not unless everybody volunteers to, that is. And how likely is that?
Künftig sollen nur noch freiwillige Rekruten eingezogen werden: Die Planer rechnen mit 7500 Freiwilligen pro Jahr.
Observing Hermann 
The opponents of the all volunteer army must be no different than those once found (and occasionally still found) in the US: it’s hard to use the soldiers as a political prop if they signed-up. They had to resort to calling them “our children” who are being sent into combat, just to find the most negative and insulting thing that they could that can’t readily be objected to.
Imagine that: a highly professional and committed National Guardsman or Marine who puts his life at risk saving a child from floodwaters in far away land where he might get shot doing it, and they have to suffer being cast as helpless children for the sake of the Fritz Teufel types of this world.
But to put it all in perspective, they could eliminate the Pentagon entirely, and these clown wouldn’t be happy. They’re teh same sort who advocated unilateral nuclear and conventional disarmament during the cold war…
…just to get the voices out of their heads.