Estonia has boosted its defense capabilities significantly in recent years, but a little-discussed aspect is that, if current ...

The Estonian Defense Forces plan to recruit and retain more active-duty personnel, increase salaries and change conscription ...

A number of European countries have already brought in some form of conscription as the drums of war beat louder in the face ...

During the Cold War, at least one year of military service was an obligatory requirement in most European nations.

Estonia's president told LBC today that he would support all European nations in introducing conscription to respond from the increasing threat from Russia. There are growing calls for countries to ...

After the Cold War, most European countries ended compulsory conscription. Just nine countries – Greece, Cyprus, Austria, ...

The UK government has dismissed a NATO ally’s suggestion that European countries should introduce conscription. Latvian President, Edgars Rinkevics, said his European neighbours should ‘absolutely’ ...

In Estonia, a country with just 1.3 million people that spent half a decade under Soviet rule, the threat from Russia is ...

The NATO allies pulling out of a treaty banning the use of landmines said it sends the message they'll use whatever they need ...