Quote Originally Posted by Culpeper View Post
I just don't get his philosophy at all.
That is part of every conscript vs professional debate. If your strategy is defence at home than you have conscripts (gives you bigger manpower pool and everybody goes through military training so they can be insurgents). If you plan to fight your wars away from home you have professionals as they are better trained and are there because they want to be.

In the past rule of thumb is that when you use consript armies away from home (specially for longer conflicts) morale starts to drop while not so with professionals (not always, though).