There are many compelling reasons for wanting to rely on such volunteers, rather than conscripts.
The conscripts, whose number will be cut to 50, 000, could be replaced by professional soldiers.
And the state-run MENA news agency reported two of the those killed Monday were army conscripts.
But the men subsequently drafted into the mines have often been referred to as the "forgotten conscripts".
In the old days conscripts were moved round the country in order to build up national loyalty.
Many European armies are long on undeployable conscripts and short on crack troops.
We knew the war would be long, we knew that volunteers, not conscripts, would shoulder the weight of this fight.
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The train carrying Central Security conscripts was heading from Assiut north to Cairo when it partially derailed around 12:45 a.m.
With perhaps 100, 000 officers and 400, 000 conscripts, Egypt's pampered and carefully insulated army found itself both protecting protesters and asking them to disperse.
These range from a youth organisation that taught army conscripts to use condoms to a beekeepers' association in the eastern province of Fergana.
Similarly in Iraq, the Shia conscripts who make up the bulk of the army saved the country from defeat during the Iran-Iraq war.
Taking larger numbers of prisoners will also be burdensome, which is why America has indicated it may leave surrendering conscripts to their own devices.
But Meriem Omer says the picture is depressing for women conscripts.
But modern warfare does not require armies of ill-trained conscripts.
The law essentially conscripts FFIs as deputy tax collectors for the IRS, forcing them to report the assets of and any income earned by American clients regardless of where it originated.
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Both are rearming, bolstering their forces with unhappy conscripts.
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General Galtieri sent thousands of troops to bolster his initial force, but the army was mostly made up of poorly-trained, poorly-equipped conscripts, used to spreading fear among demonstrating students, but no match for British professionals.
Britain is setting the pace in creating mobile, battle-ready forces, while Italy's army is still dominated by conscripts who use the experience to learn proper Italian (and to escape their families) but are not exactly bursting to fight in foreign wars.
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