military conscription
Mandatory armed enrollment
Military conscription is the compulsory enlistment of citizens into armed forces, typically during wartime or as ongoing national policy.
Governments invoke conscription when volunteer forces prove insufficient.
Also called the draft in American English: He fled to Canada to avoid conscription.
The practice raises debates about individual liberty versus collective defense obligations.
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- boot campInitial military instruction program
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Freely choosing military service
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Formal release from service
demobilization · mustering out · deferment · discharge · honorable discharge
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Opposition to mandatory military service
draft evasion · conscientious objection · draft dodging · pacifism · antimilitarism
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