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Overview
- American English
- Philippine English
- National service
- Military service
- Antiquity Ancient history
- French Revolution
- Military
- European Europe
- Active duty
- Reserve force Military reserve force
- Conscientious objection Conscientious objector
- Sexism Conscription and sexism
- Evade service Draft evasion
- Asylum Right of asylum
- Alternative service
- Combat
- Siviilipalvelus
- Finland
- Zivildienst
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Police
- Internal troops
- Border guards Border guard
- Rescue duties Rescue
- Civil defence
- Volunteers Volunteer military
- English Civil War
- United Kingdom
- United States Conscription in the United States
History
- Levée en masse
- Republic French First Republic
- Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
- Grande Armée
- Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon I of France
- Prussian Army
- Prussian Kingdom of Prussia
- Frederick the Great
- Scharnhorst Gerhard von Scharnhorst
- Russian Empire
- Serfdom Serfdom in Russia
Arguments against conscription
- Military service Armed forces
- Civil defense
- Peace churches
- Pacifist Pacifism
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Cost-to-benefit ratio Benefit–cost ratio
- Milton Friedman
- Parable of the broken window
- Post-industrial society
- American libertarians American libertarian
- Impressment
- Involuntary servitude
- Ron Paul
- Libertarian Party Libertarian Party (United States)
- Patriotism
- Ayn Rand
- Statism
- Emma Goldman
- Thirteenth Amendment Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Arver v. United States
- Constitution Constitution of the United States
- Congress United States Congress
- Declare war
Arguments for conscription
- Classical republicans Classical republicanism
- Civilian control of the military Civil control of the military
- Warriors Warrior
- Mercenaries Mercenary
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Roman Republic
- Roman Army
- Aristotle
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prince
- The Discourses on Livy
- William James
- Jonathan Alter
- Mickey Kaus
- People's Army Model The People's Army Model
- Charles Rangel
- Iraq War
- Nation-building
- Immigrant integration Integration of immigrants
- British military British Armed Forces
- Total defense Total defence
- Refresher training Refresher training (military)
- Assist civil authorities Military aid to the civil community
- Reintroduced Peace dividend
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military Keynesians Military Keynesianism
- Job guarantee
Types of conscription systems
Discrimination
- Dual citizens Multiple citizenship
- Immigrants Immigration
- Discrimination based on nationality
- Men's rights group Men's rights movement
- Discrimination against men
- Feminists Feminism
- Sexist
- Sued National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System
- Germany
- Opinion polls Opinion poll
- Disability
- Disability discrimination Ableism
By country
- Bundesheer Austrian Armed Forces
- Community service Zivildienst in Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Krasimir Karakachanov
- GERB
- Cambodia
- Canadian militia
- Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Conscription in China
- Qin Qin dynasty
- Great Wall of China
- People's Liberation Army
- Cyprus problem
- Cypriot National Guard
- Greek Cypriot Greek Cypriots
- Exit visa Travel visa
- Ministry of Defense Ministry of Defense (Cyprus)
- Viking Age
- Frederick IV of Denmark
- Constitution of Denmark
- Conscription in Eritrea
- Military training Eritrean Defence Forces
- Foreign aid
- Constitution of Eritrea
- National Assembly National Assembly (Eritrea)
- Soviet Soviet Union
- 1992 constitution Constitution of Estonia
- Estonian Defence Forces
- Air force Estonian Air Force
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Important terminology
military service men women system war male army national forces however ottoman states years since draft conscripts mandatory serve conscripted
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| the arrière-ban in France | instance of | and men at arms under local superiors appointed by the king or the local lord | 0.80 | text |
| Albanians | instance of | as well as peoples from the Balkans | 0.80 | text |
| Greeks | instance of | as well as peoples from the Balkans | 0.80 | text |
| and South Slavs | instance of | as well as peoples from the Balkans | 0.80 | text |
| Egypt | instance of | In places | 0.80 | text |
| from the Ayyubid dynasty to the time of Muhammad Ali of Egypt | instance of | In places | 0.80 | text |
| mamluks were considered to be | instance of | In places | 0.80 | text |
| order of battle to focus superior troops against inferior ones | instance of | The Prussians were used to relying on superior organization and tactical factors | 0.80 | text |
| France reserved their conscript armies for home service while maintaining professional units for overseas duties.World WarsThe range of eligible ages for conscripting was expanded to meet national demand during the World Wars.In the United States | instance of | Some colonial powers | 0.80 | text |
| the Selective Service System drafted men for World War I initially in an age range from 21 to 30 but expanded its eligibility in 1918 to an age range of 18 to 45 | instance of | Some colonial powers | 0.80 | text |
| nursing or teaching | instance of | as all women with dependent children were exempt and many women were informally left in occupations | 0.80 | text |
| the number conscripted was relatively few | instance of | as all women with dependent children were exempt and many women were informally left in occupations | 0.80 | text |
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