Compulsory Military Reform: Denmark Calls Women to Service by Lottery

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Denmark upgrades and introduces conscription for women. A lottery decides on who is drafted.

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President Gitanas Nausėda, who has hinted at the inevitability of universal conscription, says that for now only boys should be called up for compulsory military service. True, politicians have differing opinions on this issue. The number of female officers in the National Defense System is already increasing, and the minister says that in the future we will also have to make decisions about conscripting women into the military.

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The Washington Post · Annabelle Timsit Denmark has become one of the few countries in the world to draft women into compulsory military service. Copenhagen has presented the decision as an attempt to strengthen the country’s military capabilities in a geopolitical context of rising tensions with Russia and increased pressure from Washington for European countries to allocate more resources to defense. The decision, which took effect last week, s…