Chart of the day: German militarism is dead

Economist chart showing the demilitarization of conscription in Germany over the post-Cold War years.  When the 1990s began, the ratio of conscripts going into actual military service compared to community service was 2-to-1.  Now, more go into community service than military service, primarily because the number going into military service has collapsed to just over one-quarter of the 1990s total.

A sign of how Europe is opting out of the kinetic side of frontier integration in this age, which means we have no alternative but to go with the rising powers of the age—aka, the incentivized.