La conscription permet de mélanger au sein des forces armées des gens qui viennent des quatre coins de vastes pays, qui ne se connaissent pas, qui ne voyagent pas beaucoup et qui, parfois, ne connaissent pas bien le concept de nation puisqu'ils appartiennent aux populations les plus pauvres.
You take people who live in far parts of these very large countries, and do not know each other and do not travel very much, and some of the poorer populations from which people get drafted, are not well educated in what the nation is about, and move them into the armed forces to mingle them together.