{"id":1107,"date":"2016-08-23T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2016-08-23T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:30:19","slug":"germany-mulls-bringing-back-compulsory-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2016\/08\/23\/germany-mulls-bringing-back-compulsory-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"GERMANY MULLS BRINGING BACK COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1108\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Bundeswehr\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Bundeswehr-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : DW<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s interior ministry is considering taking steps toward bringing back conscription, including compulsory service to support the military, which was suspended five years ago. This is according to a report by German news agency DPA, which had access to a confidential copy of a government draft proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which is set to be voted on in Berlin on Wednesday, comes as the government seeks to push forward a new concept for civilian defense, titled &#8220;Support of the Armed Forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany has been mulling new security strategies in light of recent terror attacks, as well as tensions over Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea in 2014. The new proposals are meant in part to prepare the country for the possibility of NATO actions to defend its borders.<\/p>\n<p>All bases covered<\/p>\n<p>The draft proposal also takes into account the infrastructure and accomodations that will be required if compulsory service were to be reintroduced, including the building of lodgings such as barracks.<\/p>\n<p>Military conscription was abolished in 2011 after 55 years, because the government said there was no longer a need for it. However, compulsory military service is still a part of Germany&#8217;s Basic Law, or constitution. Therefore, it can be easily reintroduced by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of attacks in Germany in late July, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the country should also consider deploying the army, or Bundeswehr, within Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : DW Germany&#8217;s interior ministry is considering taking steps toward bringing back conscription, including compulsory service to support the military, which was suspended five years ago. This is according to a report by German news agency DPA, which had access to a confidential copy of a government draft proposal. The proposal, which is set&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2016\/08\/23\/germany-mulls-bringing-back-compulsory-military-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GERMANY MULLS BRINGING BACK COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[919,676],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-bundeswehr","tag-german","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}