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Context for non-Brits?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c988jdxl02vo
wtfffff. even for my American butt, that sounds crazy. a government forcing its citizens to conduct a year of national service strikes me like some medieval or fascist level stuff.
The cold war is restarting. British troops are among the best in the world, but they're poorly equipped and there aren't enough of them to sustain more than 2 days of fighting against an army the size of Russia's. National service partly solves the manpower issue.