Prussian Conscription - History Forum
This conscription measure created a large pool of military reserves ready to be mobilized in the event of war, while permitting a smaller active army during peacetime. Prior to the Milyutin reforms the Russian army had effectively been a long-service force with limited reserves, since many men who had completed their 25 years of service would ...
Conscription or Volunteer: which is better? - History Forum
2013年11月22日 · Conscription for a ten year period is one of the worst things a military can do, just look at the Vietnam war or Nazi Germany ( 49% of overall German military casualties were inflicted in the last eight months of the war due to conscription, and of course other things but it's still interesting to know)
How did conscription work in Prussia in 1870? - History Forum
2016年12月11日 · Hessen-Kassel fought on the side of Austria against Prussia in 1866, and he would have been the right age to have seen service in that. I'm unsure if H-K also had universal conscription, but I think they did. Just as an aside, although conscription was universal in theory, in practice it was seldom if ever so.
Did the ancient Chinese have the command and control system …
2019年11月18日 · These two elements (high bureacratization and universal conscription) have to still be accompanied with high population numbers to justify the belief that even the biggest of Zhangguo states were mobilising armies in the low hundreds of thousands like you said, except perhaps on very rare occasions, and even then, it's unlikely they could have ...
Conscription is a human disgrace! | History Forum
Conscription on the other hand demands a certain amount of labor (military service or civil service in some countries if you refuse military service). It makes no difference that there is a compulsory civil service for those who are deemed fit but refuse …
WW1 Australia conscription and social class - History Forum
2016年4月8日 · Conscription was a very emotive issue in Australia during WWI. There had already been conscription prior to the war (Australia was at the time the only English speaking country to have peacetime conscription) and this had already caused division, however the pre-war Militia was not allowed to serve overseas and thus when war was declared the AIF, an all …
How Waffen SS Soldiers became Guards at the Nuremberg War …
2020年12月31日 · Resistance at that point became futile because if someone was picked for conscription and they refused they families were threatened with imprisonment or in some cases death. In addition once the selected soldiers were informed that they would be fighting and killing Russians all of their inhibitions faded away because of the way they had been ...
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2024年12月18日 · Thank you for the reference. Here you confirmed my assumption that conscription made the French army much larger, and the soldiers who saw themselves as "equal" citizens of the nation were "willing to accept high levels of both combat and non-combat losses". Sure that spirit couldn't last forever, but contributed to initial successes.
Was China ever in the top 3 most powerful countries/empires of …
2019年3月13日 · The Roman Empire is outclassed in territorial extent, bureaucratization, military mobilization, budget, metallurgy, weaponry, cavalry, and probably population as well to the contemporary Han Empire; I would say the Western Han is the most militarily powerful state in Chinese history because of a centralized universal conscription system over 60 ...
Conscientious objectors during world war one | History Forum
2011年9月22日 · The Australian contribution was the only all volunteer fighting force. The government under Billy Hughes tried to introduce conscription through a referendum twice but failed to garner the votes needed. Interestingly, an overwhelming amount of opposition to conscription came from the soldiers in France who voted against it.