Japan's Self-Defense Forces recruited roughly half the number of new personnel targeted for fiscal 2023. https://lnkd.in/griWhrUn
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NATO Faces Personnel Crisis Amid European Rearmament 27 June 2024 In response to the escalating conflict in Ukraine, European countries with professional armies are grappling with the challenge of retaining military personnel. Here are some key points: Croatia is considering reintroducing conscription, while Denmark plans to expand it to include women. France and the U.K. struggle with retention due to chronic overtime and unattractive terms of service. Germany, which abolished conscription in 2011, is also discussing the possibility of reintroducing some form of national service. NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg emphasizes that the threat from Russia is the new normal for Europe. https://lnkd.in/dd6R4Dvi
Western European states facing army personnel crisis – FT
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Interesting read on the problems Russia will have manning its forces in Ukraine.
How Russian Officials Plan to Recruit 400K New Contract Soldiers in 2024 - The Moscow Times
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#Ukraine - #Russia - War Update: Prominent Ukrainian army unit launches own recruitment drive to strengthen ranks - excerpts from story from Reuters News Agency: A year after the founding commander of Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion was killed fighting Russian forces, his portrait adorns an airy new recruitment office in Kyiv casting a watchful eye over would-be members. With its military ranks wearing thin, Ukraine is struggling to overhaul mobilisation and broaden recruitment as the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion approaches. For the Da Vinci Wolves, led by war hero Dmytro "Da Vinci" Kotsiubailo until his death near the eastern town of Bakhmut last March, it means relying on a well-honed public image to attract new recruits. "We're looking particularly for people who want to fight, want to join our unit (and) understand what they're headed for," said the unit's new commander, Serhii Filimonov, while unveiling the office recently. They also want to show draft-eligible Ukrainians that it is possible to choose where and with whom they serve, part of a broader official effort to improve military enlistment. Ukraine failed to make significant gains in a counteroffensive launched last June and faces Russian assaults along much of the front line. Its mobilisation drive has been complicated by corruption allegations and frequent media reports of heavy-handed draft officers barging into homes or pulling men off buses. Parliament is considering a bill that would lower the draft age to 25 from 27 and toughen punishment for evasion. The defence ministry has also turned to private recruiters for help. The Da Vinci Wolves, a volunteer force that has fought across much of the front, is running its own recruitment as it reforms under the 59th Motorized Brigade and hopes to attract new members through its reputation as an experienced and motivated fighting unit. Full report: https://lnkd.in/ensZgWWR
Prominent Ukrainian army unit launches own recruitment drive to strengthen ranks
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Ukraine is facing challenges in recruiting soldiers, resorting to conscription raids on gyms and shopping centers, as reported by The Economist. The lack of recruits has led to desperate measures, including enlisting older and ill-suited civilians. The situation highlights the urgency for a new mobilization strategy to address the military gaps as Russia's full-scale invasion continues. #Ukraine #MilitaryRecruitment #RussiaInvasion
Ukraine is facing challenges in recruiting soldiers, resorting to conscription raids on gyms and shopping centers, as reported by The Economist. The lack of recruits has led to desperate measures, including enlisting older and ill-suited civilians. The situation highlights the urgency for a new mobilization strategy to address the military gaps as Russia's full-scale invasion continues. #Ukra...
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The recent surge in demand for arms and military equipment in Central Europe, driven by the conflict in Ukraine, has sparked an unprecedented boom in the region’s arms industry. However, this rapid expansion has also exposed a significant challenge: a shortage of skilled labor. Central Europe’s arms manufacturers, particularly in Poland and the Czech Republic, are now grappling with some of the tightest labor markets in Europe and are resorting to innovative strategies to attract and retain workers. https://lnkd.in/eXMhBJYb
Central Europe’s Arms Boom Threatened by Labor Shortage Amid Ukraine Conflict
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Of the four men who lined up at an army recruitment centre in Kyiv one morning this month, only one was there voluntarily. It underscored the challenge facing Ukraine, with a population of less than 40mn, nearly two years into a war against an enemy with more than three times the number of people: how to maintain a flow of recruits into the armed forces without stirring social unrest and how to build capacity to enable Kyiv to regain the battlefield initiative. Ukrainian officials and western analysts say it is not just a question of numbers but of fitness, capability and skills. The average age of Ukrainians at the front and those trained by western allies has been 30-40, rather than more usual 18-24, said Jack Watling, senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think-tank. The issue was not troop quantity but the “quality and capacity to command operations at scale”, he said. Ukraine keeps its troop and casualty numbers secret. Experts and local officials have suggested it had 1mn men and women under arms last year, including territorial defence, secret services and border guards — double the pre-February 2022 number. US officials estimate that about 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and up to 120,000 injured, compared with about 200,000 Russian dead. Kyiv has put Russia’s death toll at more than 300,000. Financial Times
Manpower becomes Ukraine’s latest challenge as it digs in for a long war
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Uzbek and other nationals are forced to join Russian army Russian army was considered to have an enormous resource of men-power. Recent events, however, suggest otherwise: Apparently, foreign nationals are being forced to join the Russian army - Uzbeks and Kyrgyz nationals have been documented as being forced to join Russian army. Does Russian army have the incredible resource in men-power? Or is it just a fake that we have come to expect from Russia? https://lnkd.in/dcpXw9qr https://lnkd.in/dM3CrS5S
Uzbeks working in Russia handed mobilisation notices
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https://lnkd.in/exUMKKYJ This is not an indepth assessment or overview, as articles go, but the source is important. Why are the Eurasians talking about this, openly? It interests me that the Eurasian Times is the periodical talking about American defense recruiting levels. #internationalgossip #recruitingcrisis #nationalsecurity
US Army Engulfed In Crisis; American Youth Disillusioned With Military Service, Recruitment Goals Falter
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“Those who say that there is no way back from the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) ignore the reality that it was never a complete solution. The Gates Commission itself, the body that first recommended establishing the AVF, recognized that conscription would be necessary in “an emergency requiring a major increase in forces over an extended period.” A protracted war of attrition like the Russo-Ukrainian War would certainly fit this description. While the United States maintains the Selective Service System (SSS) for such a contingency, the system has neither been tested nor modernized since the AVF’s creation after the Vietnam War. “It is not realistic to assume that the U.S. military will simply never get involved in another large-scale conflict again. Whatever happens in Ukraine, Putin’s Russia will continue to cast a long shadow over NATO allies in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, China’s threat to Taiwan will continue to grow. If the United States were to come to the island’s defense, war games predict massive casualties that would shatter the current AVF especially if the conflict protracts as recent research predicts it could. “Washington needs to stop thinking of conscription as a relic of the past and the SSS as a vestigial government body. Instead of routinely debating whether to eliminate the SSS, Congress should modernize it, test its weaknesses and ensure that it is truly ready to be called upon at a moment’s notice. If the United States fails to adequately prepare in this way, it could end up like Ukraine or Russia, scrambling to fill its ranks with an archaic and overwhelmed conscription system that most Americans never thought they’d have to use.” - Andrew Spafford in Stars and Stripes https://lnkd.in/ernUmgSA Source - Stars and Stripes
The Ukraine war and the myth of a permanent all-volunteer force
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