if i were a leader of a country with a "not enough people want to serve in our military" problem, these would be my topmost priorities towards solving that problem

• making the military as welcoming to women and marginalized people as possible
• making the actual process of serving (and life after service) more humane, with proper continuous care for veterans and restrictions on "stop-loss" orders, so that the only reason someone is disallowed from leaving military service past their contract period is if the country they're serving for is literally being invaded
• making sure that the country in general is more liberal and supporting of minorities than all of its neighbors and geopolitical rivals

because i feel like a lot more people would be willing to serve (and perhaps die for) their country if said country actually gave them something worth fighting for

the fact that some leaders are aware of the problem and yet are doing the exact opposite of all that makes me think that, to some extent, they're asymptomatically close to committing sabotage