Conscription was last in place in the UK in 1960, as the last soldiers who served in the national service scheme introduced ...

As the former spy-chief, Sir Alex Younger says that we need to rethink what a new type of national service could look like, defence expert Francis Tusa examines other European models where youngsters ...

Conscription ran in the UK from 1916-1920 and again from 1939-1960. It was renamed “national service” after the Second World War. The last national serviceman left the military in 1963 ...

The UK needs to recognise the "world has changed" - and Europe has to "step up" in terms of its own defence, warns a Cabinet Office minister.

Britain introduced conscription in the months leading up to World War II. It saw single men aged 20 to 22 requiring six months of military training, with 240,000 called up. When war was officially ...

Conscription was last in place in the UK in 1960, as the last soldiers who served in the national service scheme introduced for the Second World War and Cold War were discharged. In last year’s ...

It will see 160,000 men between 18 and 30 join Russia’s armed forces – an increase of 10,000 on last year’s spring drive, and ...

Conscription was extended until 1920 to allow the army to deal with continuing trouble spots in the Empire and parts of Europe. In the run-up to the Second World War, plans for limited ...