If they don’t have compulsory service, and voluntary service is new this year, how have they had any military at all?
It’s certainly a weird wording. Maybe German terminology and doesn’t translate well?
From reading the article and the linked article from there it seems like the idea is to get a conscription program in place but the first conscripts will be those who willingly joined. Then with the program in place they can move to “real” conscription. Maybe?
It’s certainly a weird wording. Maybe German terminology and doesn’t translate well?
From reading the article and the linked article from there it seems like the idea is to get a conscription program in place but the first conscripts will be those who willingly joined. Then with the program in place they can move to “real” conscription. Maybe?