Troop numbers are in decline in the UK, Germany, France and Italy. What might make more people serve?
At a festival of democracy in Berlin last month, marking 75 years of the German constitution, the stand for the Bundeswehr, the country’s armed forces, was surrounded by a crowd five people deep. But among the onlookers jostling to watch videos of recent operations and ogle its latest hardware, there were few of the people Germany’s military actually needs to appeal to: the young.
” The UK’s Haythornthwaite review of 2023, which was commissioned to investigate how skilled army careers stacked up against those in the private sector, came to a similar conclusion. “The armed forces’ competitors . . . are chasing the same, rapidly developing skills — and they often have more money to throw at the problem,” it warned last June, adding that the armed forces’ current “take it or leave it” approach had to change radically if the UK was to retain its military capabilities.
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