Showing posts with label conscription. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conscription. Show all posts
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Why Europe Is Asking Women to Get Ready to Fight Russia - BBC World Service

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Nov 23, 2025 | Across Europe, more women are being trained for war as tensions with Russia rise. At the risk of sounding old-fashioned and...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

German Cabinet Agrees to Boost Army Recruitment | DW News

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Sep 13, 2025 | Germany's cabinet has recently passed a draft law to introduce voluntary military service. The legislation leaves the doo...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Germany Considers Reinstating Compulsory Military Service – but Do Germans Actually Want to Fight?

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Aug 29, 2025 | German Chancellor Merz and his cabinet have approved plans to boost recruitment for the German armed forces - the Bundeswehr....
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Nordic country for the first time has extended a lottery for compulsory military service to women in its latest move...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Ukraine War Briefing: US Urges Zelenskyy to Lower Conscription Age to 18

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THE GUARDIAN: Biden administration readying another $725m in arms for Kyiv; Zelenskyy to approve tax increases for defence funding. What we ...
Monday, July 31, 2023

After Multiple Drone Strikes: Russia Raises Conscription Age for 'Better Defense' | DW News

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Jul 31, 2023 | Russia's defense ministry says it has thwarted an attack on Moscow by three Ukrainian drones. The strike damaged an offic...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Russia Raises Maximum Conscription Age

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Jul 25, 2023 | Russia’s lower house of parliament voted to raise the maximum conscription age to 30 years from 27. The new legislation, whic...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Russia Begins Next Wave of Army Conscription | DW News

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Apr 1, 2023 | A fresh wave of army conscription gets underway in Russia, after president Vladimir Putin signed a decree calling up 147,000 c...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Russians Are Terrified, and Have Nowhere to Turn

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Conscripted Russian men attending a farewell ceremony in Bataysk, Russia, on Monday. | Arkady Budnitsky/EPA, via Shutterstock OPINION : GU...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Putin Authorizes Draft of Nearly 135,000 into Russian Military

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Mar 31, 2022 • CNN’s Christiane Amanpour reacts to news that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on spring conscription, fixing...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

Ukraine Reinstates Conscription as Crisis Deepens

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BBC: Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has reinstated military conscription to deal with deteriorating security in the eas...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

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Austrians Vote to Keep Compulsory Military Service BBC: Austrians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of retaining compulsory military ser...