{"id":70641,"date":"2017-03-03T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70641"},"modified":"2017-03-02T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:35:34","slug":"swedes-institute-draft-for-males-and-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70641","title":{"rendered":"Swedes institute draft for males and females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/03\/02\/sweden-introduces-military-draft-for-both-men-and-women.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Sweden has instituted a draft that will require service from both men and women similar to that of their neighbor, Norway;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 20,000 people now work for the Swedish armed forces, 84 percent of them men and 16 percent women, according to the force&#8217;s website. But the armed forces lack 1,000 active troops as well as 7,000 reservists, according to Sweden&#8217;s coalition government of Social Democrats and Greens.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan approved Thursday, at least 4,000 18-year-olds could be called up each year. Enrollment should be made possible from July 1, and basic military training with compulsory service from Jan. 1. Swedes will still be able to volunteer for military service.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden expects eventually that 13,000 young people will be called upon and 4,000 will be enrolled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Swedes had ended compulsory service in 2010 after 109 years, but their concerns about security in the region has revitalized the program. They&#8217;ll still be able to volunteer for the military, but volunteers aren&#8217;t showing up lately.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Sweden has instituted a draft that will require service from both men &hellip; <a title=\"Swedes institute draft for males and females\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70641\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swedes institute draft for males and females<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}