Why is a fully professional army important for us?

 For at least three reasons. "The first is the quality of weapons. A program of rearming the army unprecedented before has been launched. This program is constantly boasted in public space by our high-ranking civilian politicians and military commanders. But modern weapons can and should be operated by professionally trained personnel. For  months of conscript service you cannot teach this - especially those who categorically do not like and do not want to do it, or those who do not have the ability and inclination to do this. In the modern world, military service is an important and necessary profession for the state, requiring specific professional skills, and not an “honorable duty” or “patriotic duty”. 

The second reason is demographic. According to none of the medium-term demographic projections, we are not threatened with population growth. On the contrary, we are predicting a gradual "degeneration". At the same time, if some monstrous cataclysms do not occur (the coronavirus is definitely not it), the average life expectancy will continue to grow. That is, our population will continue to age, and the shortage of men of military age will be felt more and more clearly every year. 

The third reason is socio-economic. Only the lazy does not say or write that there is a problem in terms of social lifts. The whole range of opportunities for self-realization for young - to become some kind of successful Tiktoker-blogger-YouTuber, get into a large state-owned company, or the police. This is also why among those who are 18-24, the highest proportion of those wishing to leave our homeland for other countries. The army is capable of providing financial and professional opportunities for a worthy career and full-fledged realization for hundreds of thousands of boys and girls, especially from poor regions. By the way, children from poor and non-capital families are much more willing to join the conscription army. 

Military service is hard and honorable work that should be well paid by the state. The professional army can and should create tens, if not hundreds of thousands of full-fledged jobs with decent wages and good social security. It's just that now there is no sense to inflate the size of the army at the expense of conscription and to produce random people in it. Modern wars are not won by numbers. So there is another good reason to speed up the transition to a professional army and abandon the conscription - the very nature of wars and the use of army units in civilian life. 

There are practically no and will not be wars in the world in which giant infantry units are in direct contact. There will be no direct contact battles of huge masses of people. Drones, special forces operations, and pinpoint missile strikes - these are the attributes of modern warfare. Wars - it would be better, of course, there never were but we are too well aware of the essence of human nature to believe in universal eternal peace in the whole world - no longer require the involvement of huge masses of people. They require trained professional military personnel who can handle new and advanced weapons. In a civilian life, the capabilities of military medicine may be required - for example, to combat epidemics. But these, too, should be professionals, and not random people recruited for a year by compulsory conscription. 

 The army now has a high enough prestige in society - much higher than 10-15 years ago, to turn it into an attractive "place of work." And not to force those who do not want, and sometimes objectively cannot serve, into the barracks for a year. Such people will serve the number, counting the days until demobilization, and they will definitely not bring any benefit to the country from the point of view of military development."