Are you worried about conscription… *trigger warning - discusses risks of war**

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Terrified, not so much of the conscription but the fact my 14 year old son is desperate to join the RAF at 16 so would go anyway.

No, OP, I am not worried about conscription, even though I also have a nephew.

With all the scary images in the media, it's easy to worry. Maybe step away from the coverage?

Keep off the news and social media. You’ll be much happier for it

I watched a documentary on Norway they aren't war mongers but lots of their population are highly trained.

I may be naive, but I think actually putting troops on the ground would really be a very last resort (excluding special ops).

Please get a map OP and look at it. The UK is very far away from any countries that would launch a drone attack.

WW3 will not happen, because the most powerful nations would lose everything if they fought each other.

My 17 year old ds2 will be exempt because he has previously attempted suicide. I worry about my 19 year old though.

This is an excellent point - please don't get too panicked.

No one is evacuating your child from you to the countryside or forcing your son into the army at gunpoint in the UK, nor is this likely to happen.

Can't see it happening. The majority of people wouldn't be keen. I did see a survey saying most people would not join up, even if it involved defending our own country. Military have said there is nothing worse trying to train people who do not want to be there, they are a hindrance.

Within my own family, I lost men (as it was then) in action, horrifically it sounds, in WW1. The loss hit family so hard, so much that when WW2 started and, again men, were being drafted, they refused as declared they were conscientious objectors. Nothing happened to them except they took work in factories at home supporting the war effort that way instead.

A year's mandatory military service? Or conscription into the army for a semi-permanent period?

They are two very different things. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland all have a year's mandatory military service. You are then in the reserves and so a week or two training every year or two. These countries have small professional armies.

Conscription into a war time army is a very different thing and for a longer period of time (like Ukraine, Israel etc). Both Ukraine and Israel had mandatory military service over the last few decades so large reserves to call on.

This is not strictly accurate.

you have to do either military service or serve in the emergency services (paramedic type role) or work abroad in a vso type role.

it is also deferrable until you have finished education, and there is a lottery system. Take up is about 75%.

No because DP and DS are both ineligible. DP is profoundly deaf with moderate to severe asthma. Hes a chef so may gets called for that . DS18 is autistic, with reduced vision and several medical conditions. I have a medical condition, but can do other non physical based things. I used to be in scouts so maybe. My brother would be the only one they’d call up. I’ll only worry about it if it happens. I’m not letting this consume me, it’s not my fight and absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. Just living my life and that’s it,

No and no

It would be ww4 by the time the paperwork and DBS checks for million of evacuees could be completed.

Plus most of the countryside is full of new build estates and traffic jams now so not exactly a 1940s lifestyle.

please ignore this it's not only not a genuine poster - it's russian propaganda

As the article says this is entirely voluntary.

so not conscription.
(also 3,000 people really is not a lot)

YANBU
I think it’s doubtful, but the way the world is at the moment, I don’t think anyone can completely rule it out.

How on Earth would evacuation event work in the 21st century.

First, I think there would be far, far more push back from parents now than there was then.

Second, I think there would be far, far fewer people prepared to take the kids in.

Third, from a safeguarding perspective, how are you going to ensure all of those taking the kids in don’t pose a risk?

Conscription wasn’t needed until 1916 in the first war because there was a ready supply of men to fight voluntarily. I can’t see there being a similar wave of patriotic devour amongst today’s young people, especially for this total shit show.

I would think if they did bring back conscription, which is very unlikely, it'd be for both men and women.

I think anyone with sons near 18 or in their twenties will be concerned.
I've been thinking about this since Russia invaded Ukraine.
France has recently re-introduced a limited form of conscription 25 years after phasing it out... Very uncertain times ahead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0edw7g7z79o

Ukraine has press gangs that drag people into vans against their will.

The Ukrainian war has completely changed warfare. We envisioned fighting the USSR on the wide planes of east europe with tanks and millions of men.

Ukraine was trench warfare at the start. Tanks are just mobile artillery and army's are divided into small groups by drones.

Shotguns will be key in knocking out drones. Most war will be machine against machine ie missiles taking out missiles/drones.

Iran doesn't have the ability to invade anyone but their neighbours which they know will lead to us boots on the ground (dragging in other countries against them) they will continue to retaliate until either the us stops or they lose. However, their neighbours are trying to move away from oil production into tourism and attracting wealthy people, they will not stand much more from Iran...who made an error in bombing them. It will be a limited conflict and we will not be involved

My DS is 16 and they’ve really been given the hard sell at careers fairs etc about a career in the army. He’s quite keen and seriously considering it as an alternative to university. All my protests fall on deaf ears because there is nothing like the misplaced confidence of a sixteen year old trying to avoid a lifetime of debt.