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Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. [1] Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under
English: Map that shows which Countries have conscription. Green: Countries that do not have any armed service. Blue: Countries that do not have conscription. Purple: Countries with active, but limited conscription (not all people who are eligible are conscripted; in most cases, less than 20% of the whole age group (include men or women), or 40% of the whole men age group if only males are ...
The conscription plan, slated to start in April, will require all men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27 to serve for up to two years, while specialists like doctors aged up to 45 must serve ...
Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the Canadian Expeditionary Force was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas ...
Belgian Armed Forces – Any citizen of a country of the European Union within the age of 18 to 34 (33 for officers) is eligible to join the forces. [7] [8] [9] Bolivia. Foreign nationals resident in Bolivia at conscription age are permitted to join the armed forces, which simplifies their naturalization process. [10]
Other countries, such as Mauritius and Panama, have no national armies, but only a paramilitary force. Tooth-to-tail ratio The numbers of military personnel listed include both support personnel (supplies, construction, and contracting) and actual combat personnel.
Around 100 AD, Plutarch quoted an early case for national service made by a Roman general sometime around the 5th century BC: With the politic design of preventing intestine broils by employment abroad, and in the hope that when rich as well as poor, plebeians and patricians, should be mingled again in the same army and in the same camp, and engage in one common service for the public, it ...