Event 1078

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  "category": "Kinetic",
  "confidence": "Medium",
  "country": "European Union",
  "description": "Minna Ålander discusses the renewed debate in Europe about (re)introducing conscription and the role of existing conscription systems in the Nordic countries. The article examines social acceptability and the challenges of growing European troop numbers through obligatory military service. It notes varying traditions, such as the unbroken conscription tradition for males in some countries, and skepticism about conscription as a solution.",
  "event_time_utc": "2025-06-18T00:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "The Conscription Comeback and the Social Contract: In this week's Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander looks at the question of obligatory military service and what the existing conscription systems – and their social acceptability – look like in the Nordic",
    "The question of (re)introducing conscription is currently a hot topic in Europe.",
    "While I come from a country with an unbroken tradition of obligatory military service for male citizens (voluntary for women), I tend to be rather sceptical about the idea that conscription would solve the problem of growing European troop numbers."
  ],
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          "The Conscription Comeback and the Social Contract: In this week's Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander looks at the question of obligatory military service and what the existing conscription systems – and their social acceptability – look like in the Nordic",
          "The question of (re)introducing conscription is currently a hot topic in Europe.",
          "While I come from a country with an unbroken tradition of obligatory military service for male citizens (voluntary for women), I tend to be rather sceptical about the idea that conscription would solve the problem of growing European troop numbers."
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  "url": "https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-conscription-comeback-and-the"
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  "url": "https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-conscription-comeback-and-the"
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