Europe is bringing back conscription: countries are creating military reserves in case of war
Date: 2024-07-15 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WORLD
In Latvia, military conscription will begin on July 17, which has become mandatory this year. Neighboring Lithuania resumed compulsory military service back in 2015, and Sweden in 2017. However, Germany and Britain have only just begun discussing this issue.
"The promise of conscription is really powerful. It seems to pave the way for a military reserve, which is what we need in case of war," said Sophia Boesch of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.
As noted, many European armies are trying to recruit a sufficient number of soldiers. According to Boesch, this was considered unnecessary after the end of the Cold War, but that all changed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"It's been argued for a long time that we need more technology, more equipment, less professional forces. I think we need both. We need well-equipped forces. We need technology on the battlefield, and we need more troops. And that's exactly what it is." what the war in Ukraine shows us,” says Besh.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict turned out to be a war of attrition with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The fact that the Russian Federation sometimes sends recruits to the front without training indicates that even with the use of drones and supersonic missiles in modern warfare, there remains a great demand for soldiers.
