Under pressure to mobilise 200,000 extra soldiers, Ukraine army recruiters are resorting to checkpoints, bundling men off the street and ignoring exemptions
When a socialist state needs soldiers, it doesn't seem like they need conscripts. People are willing and able, for the most part. It's only when a state loses its socialist characteristics and begins to prioritize expansion over stability that we see things break down.
Has conscription ever not been a total racket?
its good when used to defend socialist states
When a socialist state needs soldiers, it doesn't seem like they need conscripts. People are willing and able, for the most part. It's only when a state loses its socialist characteristics and begins to prioritize expansion over stability that we see things break down.
dprk still has to conscript to this day to deal with the threat of an american military base on their border
DPRK isn't doing active combat operations. The handful of DPRK mercenaries serving abroad are almost certainly there voluntarily.
They've got mandatory civil service, but that's very different from going to the front lines to kill or be killed.