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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by johan_larson on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:46AM (#13775535)
Yeah, 4,000 out of a cohort of 13,000 means you can be very selective. Easy enough to get rid of the real fuckups and the hell-no-way refuseniks. Give the rest some real choice in what they'll be trained for, and you might only have to say no to those with a clear mismatch between their hopes and what they are fit for.

It's interesting that they are choosing to draft both men and women. Not a lot of places draft women.

Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by BurningFrog on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:44PM (#13776248)
That's out of ~100,000 kids per year.
Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by johan_larson on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:31PM (#13777904)
Oh. So they can probably just take volunteers, then. And they don't even need to take all of them.
Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by fjdlwlv on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:25PM (#13780284)
Volunteers provided 95% of the recruiting target. Conscription is to fill the rest.