Reasons For Volunteering
Three main reasons for volunteering can be identified:
- Ideology - the volunteer believes in a cause and volunteers to fight for it.
- Adventure - the volunteer joins a foreign army to see action.
- Long-term personal or family benefit - the volunteer serves in order to qualify for non-financial benefits, such as forgiveness of sins, citizenship or to acquire an education.
This is a simplistic analysis and, in many cases, a volunteer will be influenced by two or more of these reasons. It follows, therefore, that a unit of foreign volunteers may contain soldiers with different, or different combinations of, motivations.
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