PNN – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has unveiled the draft of compulsory service on the eve of the national elections in this country, according to which all British youth will be forced to either participate in 12-month military service or join the National Voluntary Service scheme.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the British Prime Minister wrote in an article published by the Daily Mail newspaper: With the changes we will make to conscription in England based on this plan, all 18-year-old British youth will be subject to this conscription, and I promise that this plan will be implemented if the Conservative Party wins again.
Sonak explained his design, which is modeled after systems already in place across Europe: Young Britons will have the choice of joining the British Army full-time for a year and a half or volunteering for 25 days in the rescue and other sectors at weekends.
In this article, he emphasized that the concept of being British is not just having a British passport and said: This reinvented scheme provides key opportunities for our young people and as a father I look forward to my two daughters taking part in the scheme. Because I imagine that participating in this project will provide them with a valuable experience that they will benefit from throughout their lives.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, if the Conservatives are re-elected in the general election, a royal commission will be formed to finalize the details of the conscription plan, and this plan will be implemented from September next year (2025).
While the British army, according to the interpretation of most of the military experts in this country, is struggling with serious challenges in the field of lack of forces and empty ammunition warehouses and has fallen out of the eyes of the American generals, the whisper of compulsory military service in this country has reached the ears.
British Army Chief of Staff Tony Rodkin recently announced that British men and women may face a public call to join the military in the event of a war with Russia. He added that British citizens should be “trained and equipped” to fight in a possible war between NATO and Russian forces.
At the same time, Richard Sharif, the former British commander in NATO, claimed that compulsory military service should be seriously considered. In an interview with Sky News, he said that the British army is made up of people who serve voluntarily, but given the economic difficulties in defense funding, “we have to put aside a lot of assumptions and honestly think about the unimaginable.”
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The former British commander claimed that even if Russia loses the war with Ukraine, it may attack another country in the Balkans, so there is a real threat to peace in the Euro-Atlantic region, and the way to maintain peace is effective, conventional, and military deterrence.
He continued: “This means preparing for the worst case, which is fighting Russia. Our armed forces must have the necessary capabilities, supplies and training.”
Sharif said that the number of military personnel in this country is in free fall and added: This is not an army that is ready and capable of producing a war army, so I think now is the time to think about the unimaginable and if we want to increase the number of army personnel, we should seriously think about making military service compulsory.
According to most military experts, the British army is suffering from serious problems. Not long ago, the Times of London wrote in a report that the country’s army is too small to fight and is not considered a high-level military force by the United States.
This British publication reported in its report: Statistics show that if the army continues to lose its troops at the current rate, the number of soldiers will decrease to 67,741 by 2026, which is the number of US special operations forces.
The Times has estimated that in the next 10 years and based on the current trends, the British army will have 52 thousand people; The amount that, according to this publication, can easily fit in the Manchester City stadium.
This is while the London government has agreed that the number of army personnel will reach 72 thousand 500 by 2025. According to The Times, on the one hand, this decision has worried senior American generals, and on the other hand, there is a risk that the number of British army personnel will continue to decrease next year.
A former senior US general told The Times that Britain remains America’s closest ally and partner, but its military capabilities have declined sharply over the past several decades. He added: While Britain is our most important ally around the world, unfortunately it is not what it used to be.
The Sky news channel recently reported, citing British defense officials, that if the country’s military capabilities are not strengthened, the army “will not be able to protect this country and its allies.”
Shocking findings from Sky News show that the British Armed Forces would run out of ammunition “within days” if war broke out; This country does not have the ability to defend its skies against the missile and drone attacks that Ukraine is enduring, and it will take five to 10 years for the army to field a combat division of 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers with the support of tanks, artillery and bring the helicopter to the field.
Richard Camp, who worked in the British Army until 2006, admitted: The British Army has not been as weak as it is today since World War II. He added: We lack ballistic missiles, we lack ballistic missile defense, and we lack almost every combat capability you can think of.