

Just provide the indoctrination material and teach the little ducks to walk and talk Impy and you've got an army. Much easier and cheaper to let humans make more humans for you than manufacture them on your own.

They conscripted, the new First Order troopers were selected and trained from birth. The Empire's stormtrooper corps was not a clone army. They were alone coming out of the vats, everyone who made them knew that and so they gave them a family.

It gave them a bond, something worth fighting for rather than a cause they didn't necessarily believe them. The Mandalorian trainers even passed on their culture to this army, effectively turning them into an army of Mandalorians. 6786674 The Grand Army of the Republic was the 'no expense spared' deluxe army, the best the Republic could make with the best ships and weapons and training the Republic could afford, even enlisting Mandalorian commandos to help.
