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This doesn't seem particularly useful in the modern day. If you want to win a war today, you do it with highly trained soldiers and highly advanced equipment, not by handing rifles to a bunch of green volunteers or conscripts.
That's only because we haven't actually gone to war in a long time. Showing off our shiny toys in Desert Storm wasn't a full scale war. Nor have any of our other excursions been. But a fight with China? You bet your ass we'd need a never ending line of barely trained soldiers to keep up with the bloodshed. We can only hope such an event never happens.
A fight with China would be over within hours, leaving both countries reduced to radioactive craters. We won't even need soldiers for that, let alone cannon fodder.