I European countries should reintroduce mandatory military service and increase defense expenditure bringing it back to the levels of the Cold War due to the alleged threat from Russia .
To affirm it in an interview with Financial Times And The Latvian president Edgar Rinkevics, according to which "The question of military conscription must be seriously discussed".
Second r Ekevich , This will help to cope with the problems related to personnel deficiencies in the armed forces of European countries, despite the fact that the leaders military prefer " fully professional troops ”. L and authority of Latvia they have restored the compulsory conscription last year, while Estonia is taking this initiative into consideration.
The Government of Denmark intends to approve a law that, starting from 2026, it will also make military service mandatory for women and the period will increase during which training takes place of weapons.
Currently The young Danish women can only voluntarily enroll in the Armed forces, but are not subject to mandatory military service valid instead for men, extracted by lot to cover the places not occupied by volunteers.
Throughout the West, the armed forces are dealing with a growing deficiency of " military vocations ”, that is, with the vertical collapse of the recruits: a trend found for several years but which has worsened in the last two years following the conflict in Ukraine and the tangible risk of one Military clash between NATO and Russia.
On the difficulties of recruiting cannon meat, problems have long been emerged in two warfonduct countries as states United, France e Great Britain .
In the latter, 2023 had seen a vertical collapse of the number of British military. TO revealing it was a report by the Ministry of Defense of London on which confirmed how the trend had already appeared evident in 2022 But in 2023 the number of members of the British armed forces has fallen Further at 184,860 against 195,050 of October 2020.
In the United States l to percentage of young Americans who would consider A military career dropped from 13% to 2018 to 9% in 2021-22 . In 2022 the Us Air Force served a sottoreclumentation 10% r compared to the need for unity.
The Us Army even of -25%, with a hole D The 15,000 soldiers correspondent to the units of an entire division. For 2023, from the Pentagon do know that the objective of the army to recruit 65,000 soldiers It has failed.
But the problem came out in Germania For two years struggling with a militarist frenzy unknown from the end of the Second World War.
There Bundeswehr said he ordered 181,383 instead of 203,000 who Berlin aims to reach by 2025. In the last year the minister of defense Pistorius has aimed to make his career in the Bundeswehr more attractive, among the proposals there is also the reintroduction of the compulsory conscription, suspended in Germany in 2011. Provision a followed by a profound reform and reduction of forces Armies.
In Europa, a D today, the mandatory lever still exists in just Eight countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, Austria, Cyprus and Greece. With the exception of Sweden, compulsory conscription However, it only concerns men. For the rest of European Union , we proceeded to the gradual abolition, between l 1992 il 2011.
Italy He suspended - but not abolished - the mandatory lever in 2005. They are In fact, two scenarios for which the government could proceed the reactivation of compulsory conscription: the state of war or a serious international crisis that requires a numerical increase in Armed forces.
Two scenarios towards which Italy is heading as a running train. Let's stop them !!
extracted from an article in Contropiano