Inside Germany, the main issue remains conscription and the Zivildienst, the civilian alternative to military service.
"I think a conscription army has a lot of benefits, " said training officer Urs Halter.
President Chissano's recent reintroduction of conscription may count against him in next year's general election.
Cost apart, the committee's most controversial recommendation is for conscription to be all-but phased out.
The IDF assesses that by 2015, the rate of conscription will rise to 65%.
In 1996, President Jacques Chirac announced France would end military conscription from 1997, earlier than previously planned.
It is no less than federal conscription, dragooning private businesses into becoming the enforcers of federal government policy.
Although both sons deny it was their intention to escape conscription, their story has cost their father dearly.
But the party would retain the practice one which makes the German armed forces look increasingly archaic of military conscription.
In Israel, thanks to conscription, most job applicants have tackled real obstacle courses.
Villagers near the pipeline route are being forcibly relocated by SLORC's troops to camps it calls Conscription Control Centers.
Newly independent South Sudan is a rare example of conscription being introduced (in the hope of supplanting private militias).
In the latter case, one such unwanted cost may be the need for conscription to meet our military requirements.
Pioneers of suicide-bombings, they have an appalling record of terrorism, assassination, extortion, kidnapping and the conscription of children as soldiers.
During the Vietnam War, more than 50, 000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid conscription and were welcomed by Canadian authorities.
The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.
Witness French failure even to inform the Germans before taking such decisions affecting Germany as the ending of military conscription.
The Tigers, seeking to monopolise the politics of the country's Tamil minority, were pioneers in suicide-bombing and leaders in child-conscription.
There was universal conscription, and the country spent something like 10% of GDP on the Pentagon and the global struggle against communism.
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Not every experience of conscription was bad, I have many friends who enjoyed their two years, but for many the damage was permanent.
It appears that the end of conscription and the growing professionalization in the ranks has produced a political culture tending to favor conservatives.
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He recently finished military service himself (raising eyebrows in Russia, where conscription is only for the hapless: Mr Ilves's father is Estonia's president).
Tens of thousands of able-bodied ultra-Orthodox men defer their conscription year after year on the pretext of devoting their lives to religious study.
And then the fairness issue, throughout the history of conscription in this country, finds situations in which groups like women might well be included.
Such a military force should be an all-volunteer one, with conscription ended and conscripts presently serving released from their obligations as quickly as possible.
Switzerland's conscription army is facing an uncertain future, amid calls for compulsory military service to be abolished, and political pressure to keep defence costs down.
And by help I mean conscription in their tax collection operations.
His staff even anticipates that the return of conscription may be required to fill the ranks if the all-volunteer force simply cannot withstand such buffeting.
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Ultra-Orthodox conscription rates have increased seven-fold in the past four years.
In societies divided by language, ending conscription means losing such benefits.
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