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This doesn't seem particularly useful in the modern day. If you want to win a war today, you do it with highly trained soldiers and highly advanced equipment, not by handing rifles to a bunch of green volunteers or conscripts.
Plenty of jobs going in the military. If you support the war, support the war
Not that many jobs. If fully half of the country supported an act of war, there would be nowhere near enough military jobs for them to fill.
That's only because we haven't actually gone to war in a long time. Showing off our shiny toys in Desert Storm wasn't a full scale war. Nor have any of our other excursions been. But a fight with China? You bet your ass we'd need a never ending line of barely trained soldiers to keep up with the bloodshed. We can only hope such an event never happens.
A fight with China would be over within hours, leaving both countries reduced to radioactive craters. We won't even need soldiers for that, let alone cannon fodder.