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Mar

/26
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Brazil Debates Replacing Conscription With a Professional High Tech Force

A new debate has opened in Brazil over replacing compulsory military service with a more professional and technology-focused force. Former justice minister Ricardo Lewandowski argued that modern warfare increasingly depends on cyber capabilities, drones, artificial intelligence, and other advanced systems, making mass conscription less useful. Critics of the current model say conscripts receive only basic […]
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Mar

/26
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Finland: Sick conscripts are sent back to barracks despite high fevers and pneumonia

An article in Iltalehti reports that conscripts and their relatives in Finland are raising serious concerns about the handling of respiratory infections in garrisons, with several saying that sick servicemen were told to return from leave despite high fevers and were left without timely treatment. The report describes cases of prolonged illness, one of them […]
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Mar

/26
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Switzerland Moves to Make Army Orientation Day Mandatory for Women

Switzerland’s Federal Council wants to make military and civil defence orientation day compulsory for women as part of a broader push to encourage more women into voluntary service. The proposal, which would require a constitutional amendment, has split parties. As Swiss Bluenews reports: “The SP Switzerland and the Green Party reject the compulsory service. They […]
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Feb

/26
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Sweden: Conscription System Is Overloaded and Can’t Handle More Conscripts

In an interesting Altinget piece, Joel Rehn argues against a proposal to expand the annual conscript intake to 12,000 (up from the current 8,000), an idea put forward by the former Minister of Defence, who served in the Social Democrats’ government from 2014 to 2022. Rehn argues this would result in poorer quality of education […]
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