Sweden to reintroduce military service
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By AFP 1 hour ago in World
Sweden said Wednesday it would reintroduce compulsory military service from 2018, eight years after it was abolished.
The Scandinavian nation, which has not seen armed conflict on its territory in two centuries, ended conscription in 2010 after it was deemed an unsatisfactory way of meeting the needs of a modern army.
"I hope that we are going to find a path to a more stable, robust and functional means of recruitment," Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist told a news conference.
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