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Although the numbers dwindle every year due to budget cuts, we still conscript thousands to serve in all arms -and have done so since the 1820s in the modern sense of the word.

Typically men get the call up at 19 and serve 12 months or 6 months with regular call ups for reservist training .

Also we have a largish national guard that is more and more volunteers .

In the heyday of the late 70s and early 80s combined numbers of all arms was app 180 000 personell counting everything from cooks to commandos.Service length has varied with political climate and at one time it was 18 months army and 24 months in the navy .( Between the world wars it was as low as 3 months )

It dropped of since then and today it numbers around 50 000 national guard and around 10 000 regular army/navy/airforce.

I would say the typical training is fair in quality and that conscripts are fairly motivated -many units will only take conscripts that actually volunteer for their service to be in that unit .

That being said we are in no way a very fierce people ...but on our home turf I guess we would fight more tenaciously .

Today our whole military has been scaled down from the cold war doctrines of large pitched battles to the modern assymetrical warfare and " operations " style army .(Meaning that it does more policing actions and enforcing sovereignity issues than train for an actual large scale war )