Military Summer Camp Analysis

How do you feel safe when you hear about your nation’s military? Perhaps the opposite. Nations such as the USA, China and Russia had always had a strong patriotism within their civilians helping them boost a larger, stronger and a better morale military. For this cause many governments have created ways in which they attempt to inspire the underaged population. One of the techniques are through military summer camps. The most famous camps of this category can be found in the USA, Russia, China, South Korea, Israel and Hungary. Quite coincidentally I have taken part of the military summer camp called “MilitaryTábor”. In these camps kids between the age of 12 to 18 participate in Basic Training, live shooting practice and war-games against each …show more content…
Now the question is, “Why?”. Countries may create these camps or cadets because they have ended mandatory conscriptions, small military strength, or tensions between a neighboring nation. By the end of 2000, majority of nations which had mandatory conscriptions, have ended their conscription. Which indeed includes Hungary. Hungary has been criticized about their lack of attention shown to Hungarian Defense Forces or called Honvédelem. Many statistics show that the criticism has truth behind it. The Hungarian Military overall, counting the Air Force, Special Forces, etc… have overall 20,000 personnel of a nation that has just under 10 million as their population. Not mentioning the military budget of 1.03 Billion US Dollars. Also not mentioning that the Hungarian Ground Forces use 1960s. The Hungarian Air Force also uses 1970’s era aircraft. Looking at neighboring Austria, which has a population of 8.4 million, they put 2.7 million US Dollars and uses some of the most modern weaponry. Austria has such opportunity due to being one of the largest manufacturers of weapons worldwide, which are Glock, Steyr and Mannlicher. An example of the rising tension nations could be