Conscription in Australia, also known as National Service following the Second World War, has a controversial history which dates back to the implementation...

I. Mandatory conscription for males aged 12 to 26 had been implemented in 1911. The use of conscripted troops to fight outside Australia was contentious...

reinforcing the Australian Imperial Force oversea? The 1917 plebiscite was held a year after the highly contentious 1916 conscription plebiscite. The...

defence of Australia. It did not require them to participate in any war overseas. There was widespread opposition to this so-called "boy conscription", but...

Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the mandatory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military...

formed by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes in 1916, following the 1916 Labor split on the issue of World War I conscription in Australia. Hughes had...

Conscription in Russia (Russian: всеобщая воинская обязанность, romanized: vseobshchaya voinskaya obyazannost, translated as "universal military obligation"...

traveling abroad. In April 2024, President Zelensky signed new conscription laws, passed by the national legislature, that lowered the conscription age by two...

However, conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into...

A conscription crisis is a public dispute about a policy of conscription, or mandatory service in the military, known in US English as a "draft". A dispute...

system of compulsory military service. Since the late 1970s, the Chinese conscription laws mandate a hybrid system that combines conscripts and volunteers...

structure of the Australian Army. In 1911, the Universal Service Scheme was implemented, introducing conscription for the first time in Australia, with males...

Conscription was used by the Soviet Union for the duration of its existence to bolster military function and operations. Conscription was introduced into...

partial conscription for both men and women since 2017. After completing training, conscripts are placed in the reserve and assigned positions in the table...

majority of the manpower in the Swiss Armed Forces. On September 22, 2013, a referendum that aimed to abolish conscription was held in Switzerland. However...

Conscription in North Korea occurs despite ambiguity concerning its legal status. Men are universally conscripted while women undergo selective conscription...

In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American...

the conscription criteria are required to serve once they reach 18 years of age unless they qualify for any of the above-mentioned exemptions. In 1949...

registration cards. Conscription ended in December 1972, and the remaining seven men in Australian prisons for refusing conscription were freed in mid-to-late...

Conscription in Finland is part of a general compulsion for national military service for all adult males (Finnish: Asevelvollisuus; Swedish: Värnplikt)...

multiple citizenship, the conscription lapses if they have already served in the army of another country. Conscripts can be deployed in all parts of the Turkish...

conscription system in accordance with the regulations set by the government of the Republic of China. All qualified male citizens of military age in...

Germany put conscription into abeyance on 1 July 2011. While the German constitution retains the legal instruments for reintroducing conscription in Germany...

In the United Kingdom, military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to...

in 1916 in Australia to introduce conscription in order to bolster recruitment rates for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), which was deployed in Europe...

Conscription in the Philippines has been implemented at several points in the country's history. As of 2022[update], no mandatory conscription is in effect...

Conscription evasion or draft evasion (American English) is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces...

training (CMT), a form of conscription, was practised for males in New Zealand between 1909 and 1972. Military training in New Zealand has been voluntary...

Conscription in Eritrea requires every able bodied man and woman to serve, ostensibly, for 18 months. In this time, they receive six months of military...

The No Conscription Campaign was an Australian campaign that started during World War I. It was succeeded by the League for Freedom, later becoming the...