Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carsten Breuer, the Bundeswehr chief of defence, said that national service for both sexes should be compulsory - Florian Gaertner ...

With the emperor restored to power, Japan’s new leadership moved quickly to modernize its military. The traditional samurai class found itself replaced by a national conscript army modeled after ...

MURMANSK, Russia -- Two months after 20-year-old conscript Yegor Voronkin arrived at his post in the Murmansk region settlement of Pechenga, he was rushed to a hospital in the city of Severomorsk. For ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian conscript who shot dead eight fellow soldiers at his army base last year said on Thursday he had been left with no other course of action after conscripts turned his life ...

The army late last night demoted a company commander after he was accused of using a racial slur against a Japanese-Taiwanese conscript serving under him. The commander, a captain, was removed from ...

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The Belarusian army should combine elements of a professional army and a conscripted army, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he inspected the 103rd Independent ...