These roles allowed women to bypass the combat taboo. Yet they were still regarded as temporary, effectively excluding them ...

The plan leaves the door open for parliament to introduce mandatory service at least for a limited number of people in future ...

Widespread protests across Germany are a sign that the new military conscription legislation will face fierce noncooperation.

Last week, France unveiled a new programme designed to train thousands of 18 and 19-year-old volunteers, set to commence next ...

Germany's parliament approved a controversial new military service law on Friday that aims to boost Bundeswehr numbers and ...

When Stanislawa “Stasia” Krygowska Woltosz, nee Ferus, was a teenager in the southeastern Polish village of Odrzykon, she ...

Fourteen years after suspending mandatory military service, Germany plans to offer 18-year-olds the opportunity to undertake ...

Not many of us might have read about the last major German military effort during World War II called the Ardennes Offensive.

A number of European countries have reintroduced conscription or a form of incentivised military service for their young ...

Germany’s Bundestag voted for a bill on Friday that allows the country to move towards conscription, as tensions with Russia spur calls for Europe to gain more independence from the US security ...

Germany is to send troops to Poland's eastern border in an effort to strengthen NATO's eastern flank. Meanwhile, Berlin has ...