Young men cannot opt out of the army, so they are treated like regular people who are in the army for now. Probably so.
You're cunt
In WW2 our military surrendered to minimize casualties.
The Netherlands had 280.000 troops, of which 2332 died in WW2.
Germany invaded us with 750.000 troops, of which 2032 died.
It's just an optional class, once a week you wear a uniform and another day once a week they have a PT class.
A while ago the Netherlands was tasked with defending Bosnian civilians against Serbs.
All Bosnians died. There were no Dutch casualties.
Bosniaks*, not Bosnians.
Very succesful operation.
Fuck those Arab slave boys.
It does say a lot about the priorities of our government.
In Afghanistan the Netherlands just paid local warlords to leave us alone. Apparently we also purchased hostages back from the Taliban.
>thank you for your service
do Americans really say that?
People shit on France for doing the same thing, but in the end it paid off, the French military was mostly saved and the country suffered much less destruction than Eastern Europe.
The Netherlands invaded England once in the "bloodless revolution".
We just stationed a huge army, twice the size of the Spanish armada, in the south of England. Then we waited.
The British panicked and fled. And then we marched in without major losses.
Our soldiers were instructed not to raid places.