The length of service for conscripts is 12 months, cut from 24 months in 2006. The Russian government's eventual plan is to move from relying on conscripts to an increasingly professional military ...

Russian families continue to mourn young conscripts sent home in coffins, despite President Vladimir Putin’s initial pledge ...

Finland has launched a two-year national scheme to improve the physical fitness of conscription-age youth, responding to a ...

In the first year of reinstating one-year mandatory military service last year, 993 people signed up for voluntary service, a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a big promise when he launched his war on Ukraine: conscripts would not be involved in combat. But as Moscow struggles to contain Ukrainian advances deeper ...

A growing shortage of conscripts is threatening to disrupt the Turkmen government’s efforts to modernize the country’s armed forces. RFE/RL reports that Turkmen officials are considering raising the ...

Cadets said the war in Ukraine and global political tensions have strengthened their commitment to national defence and ...

Britain’s armed forces would become a ”worldwide laughing stock” if its ranks were filled with “pampered” Gen-Z conscripts, a ...

Throughout the first year of their military service, hundreds of thousands of new recruits in the Russian armed forces face grossly abusive treatment at the hands of more senior conscripts.