Military Hack, Changing Oath Since getting rid of all military in the world sounds utopian at this moment, UN can take a first step in this direction by asking its member countries to change military oath in their countries. Soldiers take oath to protect their countries on their soil, but are not obligated to participate in wars in foreign lands even if it sounds by politicians as "protecting motherland" |
From a more cynical perspective: Who's going to have to actually change the oaths? The politicians. The same politicians who want to be able to sell the wars as protecting the motherland. That change seems to be unlikely to be implemented, because it takes power away from those who want it.
No, it wouldn't have; they just would have changed it back, as they violated lots of other terms imposed on them to prevent them from being a threat.
And if the Allies hadn't been just as eager to dump the restrictions, it would have interfered with the Allied response to Nazi Germany.
Controlling war isn't a matter of thinking up rules that will prevent it as long as no one breaks them. If it were, the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928 would have solved the problem.