As some Nato member countries extend conscription, history shows that it can sometimes create more equality in society.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
As Ukraine begs its allies for more arms to defend itself, Russia is beginning to advance at several along its front lines.
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.
The army has released a new recruitment video on social media that resembles a Fortnite-style game.
The Ukrainian president has called for another half a million troops this year and his government has introduced strict conscription laws in an attempt to deter draft-dodging.
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.
It is Kyiv, not Moscow, that is feeling the pressure as the war drags on with no end in sight.
The Kremlin’s appeals to Russian masculinity will miss the mark. Russian men have changed over the past two decades.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Widespread outrage at Vladimir Putin’s decision to introduce partial mobilisation has focused attention on his ability to rule by decree.
Russian men fleeing conscription are entitled to protection under international law – here’s why.
Russian reservists are now being called up after president Putin announced changes to his military plans.
Questions include whether women should be compelled to register, as men are, and whether the draft and draft registration should exist at all.
A commission looking at the future of service is set to makesits recommendations. It is hoping to make a year of service ‘a norm’ for all Americans. What does it mean to serve?
Set in the army during apartheid, the South African film Moffie is a masterpiece. Oliver Hermanus, a black filmmaker, explores how toxic white masculinity breeds racism and homophobia.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
Historically, wishful thinking has blunted pushback.
Rock music against military conscription during 1980s South Africa resonated with wider fault lines in Afrikaner society - this as the apartheid regime’s grip on power started to slip.
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