If 40% of those 18-35 volunteered that is probably a similar number who volunteered for WWII. We ran out of volunteers by the end of WWII and consription efforts were begun though very few conscipts were every deployed.
I think in order to make a fair decision you would have to be faced with it. If I truly believed that a war was fighting for the survival of an ideal I believe in or a country I likes boarders were being invaded and we were running out of volunteers then I would likely volunteer.
That said a war for global or even european domination isn't going to happen anymore. To many nukes for countries use if their existance is at stake. If troops ever landed in Britain that country would get nuked.
Also wars no longer need to be fought with ground troops. If you aren't concerned with Civilian casualties you just bomb and bomb and bomb until you destroyed the industrial capacity of the country. And in a war for survival of countries you would no longer be concerned with causulties.
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