Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden has ruled out conscription in the UK but says that we 'have to recognise that the world has changed'. It comes after the president of Latvia called on European nations to have mandatory military service....
One mother was left with nothing but questions after her teenage son's death, and she wasn't afraid to put them to Putin directly, as we reported on Sky News earlier this year. Watch: The mother who wrote to Putin 'It should be specially trained people' The Kremlin ...
//www.child-soldiers.org/news/open-letter-to-the-minis- try-of-defence 8 R Abu-Hayyeh and G Singh, 'Adverse health effects of recruiting child soldiers', BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2019, 3(1); Medact, 'The Recruitment of Children by the UK Armed Forces: A Critique from Health ...
One of the defining features of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is its portrayal of a future engulfed in perpetual warfare. Oceania, we are told, is at war with Eurasia (or is it Eastasia)? There are newsflashes reporting 'glorious victories' on remote fronts, while rocket bombs fall ...
The Roman Viktyuk Theatre, a striking constructivist building north of Moscow’s city centre, is just one of a number of conscription centres set up in the Russian capital. In September, its main stage hosted live plays. When VICE World News visited, it was populated by white cubicles for...
Pizzo,Mark - 《Insight on the News》 被引量: 1发表: 1999年 The Fall of the Napoleonic Empire The historian of the fall of the Napoleonic empire is always in the interesting position of working backwards from the military-diplomatic events of the 't... M Broers 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 ...
In this story at the start of last year, Sky News looked at how the UK has used conscription before, and what military experts and the government say about bringing it back. How conscription has been used in previous wars Sky News
news journalismpolitical economyIn a remarkable discursive revolution, a variety of economic languages (customary, mercantilist, protectionist, proto-socialist) which competed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were replaced in early Victorian Britain by a 'hegemonic' language of liberal...
Sky News has verified a video of the shooting - reportedly by a would-be conscript. It shows the gunman shooting the recruiter at point blank range, who falls to the ground as others at the draft office start running out of the room to the sound...
Ukraine will only consider agreeing to lower the conscription age in the country after it receives more military hardware from its international backers, Vladimir Zelensky has insisted. During a meeting with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Tuesday, the Ukrainian leader Zelensky stressed that ...