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

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...

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

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

as a chosen job (volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Few nations, such as Israel, require a specific amount of military...

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), maintains an active conscription system in accordance with the regulations set by the government of the...

Conscription in South Korea has existed since 1957 and requires male citizens between the ages of 18 and 35 to perform compulsory military service. Women...

military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to 1960. The last conscription term...

2024, President Zelensky signed new conscription laws, passed by the national legislature, that lowered the conscription age by two years, from 27 to 25,...

selective conscription. Conscription takes place at age 17 and service ends at 30. Children of the political elites are exempt from conscription, as are...