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

The pictures from Ukraine are very similar to those from the 2nd World War. I was in Budapest the first few days of that war and the displaced arriving by train from the Donbas could have been the films I saw in the Schindler museum the week before in Krakov. Everyone keeps saying it's all technology. Don't see that in Palestine or Ukraine or Afganistan or Sudan or Syria to name a few modern day conflicts. Wars are still won on the ground and most recognise even the bombing and drone might of USA will not win a war without ground advances. That means people fighting on the ground.

I’m surprised they do it at all in Germany, having had basically next to no military investment until very recently as restitution and reconciliation for ww2

I don’t believe children will be evacuated. Taking children from their parents and housing them with strangers simply wouldn’t happen these days

Iran are currently hitting the gulf states because they dare not/cannot hit Israel or America.

drones come in a variety of forms and short range are cheapest and easiest. When Ukraine took out the Russian atomic bonnets they drove Lorries into Russia and launched the drones from the Lorries.

the uk has many countries between us and Russia most of which have bloody good air defences. There are even more between us and Iran if there’s even anything left of the Iranian military by the time Trump has finished.

No I’m not worried because my children won’t be doing it, if necessary they’ll leave the country.

Im not sure how they’d make it work - I suppose send all the fit and healthy young people, the ones currently keeping the country afloat? Too many would cry off for various reasons, no way are my children going to fight in a war especially one in the ME that is based on a knuckle dragging religion.

I think about it all the time

I used to read Goodnight Mister Tom in bed as a kid and then cry myself to sleep

No idea where my anxiety diagnosis has come from 🤷‍♀️

Yanbu op, just hope and pray, and remember just how lucky we are to have been born in the UK.

And don't vote Reform.

I don't think there will be conscription overtly because it would be extremely difficult to police, but I do think they will bring back National Service and I think it will be across both sexes. This will then generate a more militarised and unified Gen A in a way that we haven't seen for a while.

When the threat of war is over I think this will then be softened like in Germany when you will have the choice to do military or health/childcare.

I don't think we're anywhere near conscription yet, but Trump has no idea what he's doing - it's hard to imagine a more unsuitable leader for the world's most powerful nation - and the situation could get badly out of hand. Personally I suspect that America will find some reason why they've 'won' and withdraw pretty soon. Trump and the others have shown time and time again that they're comfortable lying and making up reality as they go along.

Conscription in the U.K. is historically very rare.

it wasn’t done in the First World War until 1916 two years after the war started.

yes many countries closer to Russia are starting to look at getting more of their population trained up so that they have a bigger pool of trained people to call on if Russia are stupid enough to invade but honestly a mass of untrained people are not useful to most armies.

Dumbass whoever has posted all over social media about where drone factories will be based (near me). Stupid!

I wont get conscripted. I have no desire to kill other people.

Russia do have mandatory conscription?

The Scandinavian countries all have military conscription (for men and women at 18+)

Ah, apologies.

Russia does have conscription but conscripts are expected to fill in for the regular army who are in Ukraine so the conscripts are not fighting in Ukraine but are in Russia doing guarding things and such like.

It’s always been this way for service children. This isn’t the first conflict, there are wars all over the world that our military are deployed all the time, the media just don’t report it.
We are still in a relative peaceful time in civilisation compared to the past.
Conscription is very unlikely unless something catastrophic happens and we are not on the verge of WW3

And then…? How do we get from NATO to conscription in the uk?

I think it’s naive to think that a third world war is going to be anything like the other two. It’s going to be fought by drones, with technology, and highly trained professional armies, not barely trained kids conscripted off the street.

Also, if there was conscription, they’d be calling up women as well as men.

It’s nothing like Covid. Loads of people pulled their children out a week before schools closed. Loads of people were sheltering and stockpiling for close to a month before lockdown. That wasn’t your spidey senses, that was mass hysteria

Russia DOES have 12 months mandatory conscription.

So does Norway and they’re not exact war mongers.

I’m not- wars are fought with technology now, and it’s certainly a great distance to Iran so I can’t see the need for physical presence of huge numbers of British adults?!

what are you envisioning they're to be used for?

Professionally I am involved with schools where there are a very high proportion of service pupils.

I hear far more than I should. Overtime, not just now.

I see the effects on children of their serving mum or/and dad, the worries when they are deployed, the impact of very little contact.

Horrible times.