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Finnish Army Admits Conscript Training Must Adapt to the Drone Age

Finland is changing how it trains conscripts in response to lessons from Ukraine, with soldiers spending less time in classrooms and increasingly dispersing in the field to reduce their vulnerability to drones. Yle reports that reconnaissance troops now sometimes sleep individually under camouflage nets rather than together in heated tents, whose stoves produce a thermal […]
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Swedish Conscripts Have Rights on Paper, But Limited Means to Enforce Them

Swedish workplace magazine Arbetarskydd has highlighted an unusual weakness in the position of Sweden’s conscripts: although Pliktrådet represents them nationally, it is not a trade union and conscripts are not employees of the Armed Forces. Conscripts do not automatically receive every protection attached to employee status. Most strikingly, the Swedish government confirmed in 2025 that […]
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Women Veterans Back Legal Challenge to Male-Only Registration

Women veterans’ organizations have filed an amicus brief supporting a First Circuit appeal against the male-only Selective Service system. The case was brought by Jacqueline Fenore, whose March 2025 attempt to register was rejected solely because she is a woman, and Equal Means Equal, an organization campaigning against sex discrimination. The plaintiffs stress that they […]
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Finnish MP Seeks Protection for Students Delayed by Military or Civilian Service

National Coalition Party MP Sari Sarkomaa has submitted a parliamentary initiative to prevent military or civilian service from costing students their eligibility for Finland’s student-loan compensation. Although service itself is accepted as a reason for extending the completion deadline, a six- or nine-month service period may end midway through the academic year, leaving students unable […]
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