US EditionBut Compulsory Military Service? Compulsory Officer Doubts Government Plan
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The lack of personnel at the Bundeswehr provides for discussion about the reintroduction of compulsory military service. Dirk Wiese, First Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD, sees the attractiveness given among other things by salary and driving licence possibilities.
Once conscription was a promise of civil rights, then a relic of the past. Now it could return. And with it the question: What motivates soldiers?
The military officer Henning Otte wants changes to the planned voluntary military service and supports Dobrindt's drone concept.
Before the Bundestag deliberations on the planned new military service, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Henning Otte (CDU), advocated for improvements to speed up the transition to conscription if necessary. "It may be laudable in principle to rely on voluntary service," Otte told the newspapers of the Funke Media Group (Sunday editions). "However, I have serious doubts as to whether this can truly succeed. After all, the Bu…
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The military officer Henning Otte wants changes to the planned voluntary military service and supports Dobrindt's drone concept.
The CDU/CSU and SPD are at odds over the draft military service bill. The SPD continues to rely on voluntary recruitment, but the CDU/CSU do not believe the desired personnel numbers can be achieved this way and are advocating for a new military service requirement.
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