Something is happening in Germany that the politicians pushing Europe toward militarization should pay very close attention to. More than 45,000 students walked out of their classrooms across over 100 cities to protest the country’s new military-service system and the possibility that compulsory service will follow. These are the young people Berlin expects to put in uniform, and they are making something perfectly clear: you can increase the military budget with the stroke of a pen, but finding people willing to fight is an entirely different matter. [Read More]