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Sweden to reintroduce conscription amid rising Baltic tensionsDraft will cover men and women born in 1999 or later, though only small minority will be selected to serveSwedish military draft reintroducedPhilip OltermannThursday 2 March 2017 09.54 ESTFirst published on Thursday 2 March 2017 07.24 ESTSweden has voted to reintroduce military conscription by 1 July after struggling to fill army ranks on a voluntary basis, citing increased Russian military activity in the Baltics as one of the reasons for the policy U-turn.In 2010, Sweden’s centre-right government of the time abolished the draft after more than 100 years, arguing that targeted recruitment would increase the quality of a military that had shrunk by more than 90% since the end of the cold war.Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/sweden-reintroduce-conscription-amid-rising-baltic-tensions
