The EDF does already provide language training to non-native speakers of Estonian who are due to serve, or are serving, terms of conscription – mandatory for either eight- or 11-month terms depending ...

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Approximately 50 veterans attended a sports camp in Estonia last week to prepare for the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver, the first time a pre-event training camp has been organized. Veterans from ...

The United States hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but men between the ages of 18-25 are still required to register with the Selective Service to be called up in case of a national emergency.

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But this was not enough to keep pace with mounting casualties. The government saw no alternative but to increase numbers by conscription – compulsory active service. Parliament was deeply divided but ...

Just grief.” She is not alone. The United States, Kyiv's main military backer, has called on Ukraine to lower the conscription age from 25 to 18 as the country struggles to fend off advancing ...

The Government of the Russian Federation supported, taking into account the comments, a draft law according to which a decision on conscription, which was not executed during the conscription period, ...

Kyiv | US President-elect Donald Trump intends to push Ukraine to lower its age of conscription in an effort to stabilise the country’s front lines ahead of direct negotiations with Russia.

The Thai military’s recent suggestion that citizens could be allowed to pay to avoid conscription has sparked a public debate. Lieutenant-General Taweepool Rimsakorn, head of the Territorial ...

Who Will Get Chosen For Conscription? Posted: January 14, 2025 | Last updated: January 14, 2025 Conscription in one form or another has been utilized by nations to fill the ranks of their armed ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on Western officials’ calls for the conscription age to be lowered in Ukraine, saying that the first priority for the Ukrainian army is weapons and ...