More than half of Germans of all ages \u2013 with one key cohort excepted \u2013 want to restore compulsory military service, a survey released Thursday reveals, as war on the European continent between Russia and Ukraine drags on into another year.<\/p>\n
The revelation comes courtesy of a representative survey by the opinion research institute Insa and\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Welt<\/em>. It\u00a0<\/i>shows\u00a052 percent of respondents are in favor of armed service while 32 percent are against it.<\/p>\n Germany scrapped compulsory military service back in 2011 although a growing call for rearmament right across Europe is now forcing it to think again.<\/p>\n The polling sets out as the age of the respondent increases, agreement increases from just 30 percent among the youngest to 65 and 62 percent among the oldest respondents.<\/p>\n A relative majority of 18 to 29 year olds \u2013 the age group affected by compulsory military service \u2013 say no to the question, 49 percent, while among older people the positive view predominates at 43 to 65 percent.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Welt<\/em>\u00a0story outlines shortly before Christmas, Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) suggested conscription based on the \u201cSwedish model.\u201d<\/p>\n Sweden ended conscription in 2010 after over a century of continual operation, but a changing security picture in Europe\u00a0and an inability to recruit enough soldiers voluntarily saw it return in 2017.<\/p>\n Men and women are recruited on an equal basis, one of the only countries in the world to do so, but not everybody serves, with the government selecting a few thousand out of the pool of eligible teenagers every year.<\/p>\n \u201cAll young women and men are mustered there and only a selected number of them end up doing basic military service,\u201d Pistorius said, echoing a call to arms that is growing right across Europe, as Breitbart London\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more at: breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than half of Germans of all ages \u2013 with one key cohort excepted \u2013 want to restore compulsory military service, a survey released Thursday reveals, as war on the European continent between Russia and Ukraine drags on into another year. The revelation comes courtesy of a representative survey by the opinion research institute Insa … Continue reading Majority of Germans Back Return of Compulsory Military Service: Younger People Not So Sure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6qt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24706,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions\/24706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}