2592|NATIONAL DEFENCE AND ARMED FORCES (VI)

— Valuation scale of different professions. — Feeling of pride of being Spanish. — Feeling produced by the Spanish flag, the national anthem and the Castro acts. — Situations, ideas and beliefs for which you would be willing to risk your life. — Willingness to participate voluntarily in the defense of the country in case of military attack. — Assumptions that would justify the government ordering military action. — Opinion on the three values that must prevail in a military. — Assessment of the future of armies. — Opinion on the influence of the actions of the Armed Forces on the international prestige of a country. Influence in the Spanish case. — Degree of interest with which he follows the news, and often with which he talks with people close to him, about the Armed Forces. — Personal valuation of the Spanish Armed Forces. — Assessment of the degree of readiness of the Spanish Armed Forces to defend Spain from an attack from another country. Comparison with the degree of preparation they had 5 years ago. — Evaluation of the current preparation of the Spanish Armed Forces: professional training and volume of human and material resources. — Evaluation of the volume of troops that the Spanish Armed Forces have. — Evaluation of the Defense Budget. — Agreement with different opinions on the professionalisation of the Army. — Degree of agreement with the increase of the Defense budget for the creation of a professional army. — Opinion on the participation of women in combat positions in a professional army. — Assessment of Spain’s membership of NATO. — Existence of countries and hotspots of conflict that may pose a risk to the security of Spain. — Opinion on the internationalisation of the Spanish Armed Forces. — Agreement with the participation of Spain in peace missions under the mandate of the UN. Influence of this participation in the assessment of the interviewee of the Armed Forces. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in March 2004 general elections. — Possession of a family member who is/has been a military. Degree of kinship with the interviewee. — Religiosity of the interviewee. — Frequency of attendance at religious offices. TO YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 16 TO 24: — More important motivation to choose the military profession. — Degree of importance that the interviewee attaches to different stimuli to promote the military vocation in young people. — Opinion on the influence of different reasons on the decision to become a professional soldier. — Possibility of considering being a soldier in case of professionalisation of the army. Reasons why you would consider being a professional soldier. Type of commitment approach: short-term or long-term. — Degree of agreement that compulsory military service had to be done to access the Civil Guard or other State Security Corps. — Knowledge of any person in their environment who is considering becoming a professional soldier. OVER 24 YEARS OF AGE: — Attitude to the assumption that a son decided to become a professional soldier. Reason for this attitude. — Attitude to the assumption that a child decided to be a career military.