Who would fight for Britain?
by Frederick Edward:
Who would fight for the United Kingdom? This isn’t so much a rhetorical question as a practical one, as senior figures in Britain’s armed forces wrestle with the fact that we have a comically small military for a nation with world-power pretensions.
What is in it for the demographic who traditionally spilled their blood for the nation – the white male? Branches of our armed forces discourage them joining: the great-grandsons of the pilots of the Battle of Britain given the cold shoulder.
More crucially, they grow up in a society which preaches continuous self-loathing. In a world without functioning Christianity, the modern-day original sin is to be white. Augment this by being male and straight and you are at the bottom of the pecking order.
Such white, straight males are incessantly told of the misdeeds of their ancestors, ranging from slavery to misogyny to homophobia. They are brought up in a country forever apologising for its past, where self-flagellation of this type is a marker of good taste and a prerequisite for social advancement.
Were a war to break out, you can be sure that the white male would be called upon to do the dying. Yet in an emasculated modern age – remember, most of these lads will have been through a feminised education, imbued with female attitudes and discouraged from anything easily labelled as toxically masculine – it’s not clear how many of these you would even want on the front line. After all, amid the crash of artillery and whirr of drone there are no ‘safe spaces’.
Read also: Why should young people join the Army? by Ben Sixsmith, Artillery Row
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