Workers at the site of a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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The latest round-up of news from Ukraine.
Ukraine soldiers in training.
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Historically allowing opt outs of conscription has created tension in the population.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against army recruitment in Jerusalem on June 30, 2024.
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The Israel-Hamas war has fueled tensions around military exemptions, but the issue has long roiled Israeli politics.
A burnt-out Russian tank in Svyatogirsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
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Swathes of young Russians fled their country to avoid being sent to war in Ukraine, this summer could see a new exodus.
Ukrainian soldiers unload supplies from a truck in Kharkiv Oblast.
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Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
Swedish conscripts on parade.
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As some Nato member countries extend conscription, history shows that it can sometimes create more equality in society.
Finland has compulsory military service, other nations are thinking about following suit.
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Conscription is being talked about by Nato’s European members as they grow increasingly concerned about further Russian expansion. Ukraine has just expanded its version.
Israeli police scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jews as they block a main road in Jerusalem during an October 2017 protest against Israeli army conscription.
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The Israel-Hamas war has fueled tensions around military exemptions, but the issue has long roiled Israeli politics.
Israeli reservists take a moment to rest in southern Israel on Nov. 13, 2023.
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Israel’s decision to mobilize hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers was not just an act of self-defense, a scholar writes, but a political move as well.
‘Be a man’: Russian marine conscripts at a departure ceremony at Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg.
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The Kremlin’s appeals to Russian masculinity will miss the mark. Russian men have changed over the past two decades.
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Interviews with Russian men found most no longer see military service as a marker of masculinity.
The remains of a Russian Army armoured column in Bucha, Ukraine on 09 April 2022.
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Vladimir Putin may have swerved away from a full conscription policy because of what we know about how if affects political support.
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Russian reservists are now being called up after president Putin announced changes to his military plans.
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Military service is compulsory in South Korea and many deem it unfair that the band’s members have been allowed to put it off.
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As Ukraine scrambles to defend itself from Russia’s illegal invasion, men aged 18 to 60 have been banned from leaving the country.
Ex-service people protest the visit of US President Lyndon Johnson, December 1966.
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A short history of the Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia: a group of brave returned servicemen and women who protested the Vietnam War.
Draftees are sworn into the U.S. Army in 1940.
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Questions include whether women should be compelled to register, as men are, and whether the draft and draft registration should exist at all.
A large group of American male Reserve Officers Training Corps students gather to protest the U.S. draft in the late 1930s.
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An Iranian general’s killing sparked fears of war and a draft in the US. Those are old fears, says a scholar who contends it’s a myth that during the two world wars, men signed up in droves to fight.
Soldiers in Anzac Cove. The war had driven Australians apart in the demands it made upon the people.
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The politics of the war continue to resonate in our discussions of national identity and purpose.
The army’s latest recruitment campaign was mocked for its political correctness.
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In a world that is unrecognisable to that of 1914, should the British army be relying on recruitment tactics that are a century old?