{"id":372682,"date":"2018-08-09T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-government-plans-reintroduction-of-military-conscription\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T06:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T05:53:02","slug":"german-government-plans-reintroduction-of-military-conscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-government-plans-reintroduction-of-military-conscription\/","title":{"rendered":"German government plans reintroduction of military conscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>German government plans reintroduction of military conscription<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Noah Windstein<br \/>\n    <br \/>9 August 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Germany\u2019s grand coalition government of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats wants to reintroduce general military conscription. This was reported by various media outlets over the past weekend, including <em>Spiegel Online<\/em>, the <em>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em> and <em>Tagesschau<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party conference in autumn is scheduled to adopt a resolution to reintroduce military service and include this in its joint programme with the Christian Social Union (CSU).<\/p>\n<p>Bundestag (parliamentary) deputy Oswin Veith, who is also president of the Association of Reservists, told the <em>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/em> that conscription should \u201clast 12 months and apply to young men and women over 18\u201d. Another CDU politician, Patrick Sensburg, announced that in the face of an unstable world situation, compulsory military service \u201cfor the very purpose of an army, the defence of one\u2019s own country\u201d was indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is also receiving support from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Parliamentary deputy Fritz Felgentreu expressed the party\u2019s position clearly: \u201cWe must conduct a social debate over whether we are presently making the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) as attractive as possible, will we actually reach the numbers of personnel we need for national and alliance defence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There is absolute consensus in the grand Coalition over the goal of making the Bundeswehr \u201cattractive\u201d, i.e., powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Some politicians\u2014both in the opposition, as well as in the ranks of the CDU and SPD\u2014have expressed reservations about the reintroduction of compulsory military service. They fear this will damage the building of a professional army, which was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/08\/09\/cons-a09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 German government plans reintroduction of military conscription By Noah Windstein 9 August 2018 Germany\u2019s grand coalition government of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats wants to reintroduce general military conscription. This was reported by various media outlets over the past weekend, including Spiegel Online, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Tagesschau. The Christian Democratic Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}