Government plans: The Netherlands wants three times as much personnel for armed forces

The Ministry of Defence has plans for a major expansion and is looking for additional staff, including professional soldiers and civilians. Defence reporter Silvan Schoonhoven, journalist Wierd Duk and NSC MP Olger van Dijk discuss the consequences of this at News of the Day.

According to State Secretary Tuinman, the armed forces must grow much faster than planned given the situation in the world.

The number of soldiers and civilians should rise sharply. But where should people come from? The Hague is now thinking about a military service based on the model of Sweden.

SocialLandgenoten. Your country is going to change completely. Goodbye flowers. Goodbye bees. Goodbye black-tailed godwits. We are going from an army of 74,000 part-time FTE pigeons, to a OILED MACHINE of 200,000 HAWKS. And everyone is welcome. We used to have a Strict Inspection for Military Conscription, but today the barracks gate is wide open for every Jan Joker and his Mother. That's how great the need is apparently. The Tripling of Defense…

If salaries are not raised, there will not be enough soldiers for the major rearmament, the concern is.

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