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A question about new conscription policy: still basically voluntary? (leddit.danmark.party)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm interested in the new conscription policy being proposed.

From what I've read, women would be required to register for the lottery and service would be extended to 11 months.

My current understanding is that conscription in Denmark is basically voluntary. If you say you don't want to do it, they won't pick you? How exactly does that work if there's a lottery?

And would that change with the new policy?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

sp668 at 2024-03-17 08:55:33+00:00 ID: kv9bf3a

As long as the training capacity of the armed forces isn't a lot larger it's still going to be basically voluntary.

There's been too many volunteers compared to the need and capacity for educating them for a long time, even before the steepest cutbacks not many people were forced.

So unless we go back to having several divisions of infantry like in the cold war there's likely not going to be a need to force anyone. Or maybe if we go towards having a huge reserve force like eg. the Finns have. Then maybe it's going to happen but I've not seen anything like that yet. There's been talk of fielding a brigade soon, and that's honestly not much.

Also if all the new money is going to be used to improve conditions and actually make being a soldier a decent job I don't think we're going to run out of volunteers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

comments83820 (OP) at 2024-03-17 12:23:58+00:00 ID: kv9rryb

thanks for explaining