Survey: Only 18% of Germans would fight for their country

Going by that infograph 27% of Brits would fight. But reality doesn't match up with that.
The Army is is decreasing from it standing strength of 101,000 men to about 82.000 men by the year 2020. And even with the reduction in numbers the Army is still struggling to recruit.
Most of those 27% were talking s**t. Like MagicNMedicine said, if they're willing to fight, prove it.

Think it depends on what's being asked tbh. We get many articles about our army apparently being poorly funded (not sure how true that really is) and of course some engagements have been questionable in their achievements, thus that may be why some do not feel that they want to join the army.

Also having a career as a soldier and saying you'd fight for your country are two different things. I am not a soldier and have no interest in joining the army, however if you'd ask me "would you fight for your country?" and we're imagining a scenario of all-out war where conscription would be considered, I'd say yes, I wouldn't be a conscious objector for the most part. But again it does depend on the scenario, if Britain decided to invade X African nation for a highly questionable reason, I may not want to put my name to that invasion. But if we were being attacked by another nation (Russia started to steamroll through Europe) and were being called up to respond..that's a different situation, and I'd hope the vast majority would pick up arms and fight in the streets if it got to that point.

Totally irrelevant.

Anybody can claim "I am a proud patriot and I would fight and die for my country", it means jack **** unless you're willing to join up, do the training and serve.

I think if we look upon the Germans with disdain, then we should look upon ourselves with disdain as well. Going by that infograph 27% of Brits would fight. But reality doesn't match up with that.
The Army is is decreasing from it standing strength of 101,000 men to about 82.000 men by the year 2020. And even with the reduction in numbers the Army is still struggling to recruit.
Most of those 27% were talking s**t. Like MagicNMedicine said, if they're willing to fight, prove it.
Anyway, the Germans have conscription whereby they can join the forces or join a public service organisation.

Germany - hardly surprising considering the relatively recent negative experience(s) of doing so.

There does seem to be a direct correlation tho, between how willing respondents are to say "yes" and how generally crap the country is. The nations with massive chips on their shoulders seem to have the highest percentages.

The Russians - who didn't like Communism, but can't get over not being an international big boy.
Turkey - international sad case, head in the sand deniers of everything, had a genocidal empire but haven't got any guilt over it.
Greece - watched far too much 300. Completely incapable of doing anything, yet love to big themselves up.
Ukraine - well, they're actually half in a war, so it's hardly surprising.

It's also telling that the countries with the armies that could actually go to war and do something are the ones with the low percentages. They've got professional armies, so why does Joe Public need to worry?

Progress.

Of all the things to fight for "your country" is one of the stupidest.