{"id":318564,"date":"2025-11-16T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318564"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:04:49","slug":"germany-marches-toward-reinstating-military-conscription-starting-with-fitness-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318564","title":{"rendered":"Germany Marches Toward Reinstating Military Conscription, Starting With Fitness Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tyler Durden \u2013 Zero Hedge Nov 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Under US pressure to bolster its armed forces so as to deter supposed Russian aspirations to invade NATO countries, <strong>Germany is moving toward reinstating military conscription, with the initial steps centering questionnaires and medical exams that will feed a database detailing each young man&#8217;s fitness, aptitude and willingness to serve. <\/strong>The plan was agreed upon by Germany&#8217;s coalition government on Thursday, and now goes to parliament, where the ruling coalition has a slim majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/berlins-answer-to-its-conscription-conundrum-a-massive-medical-database-5728dd42?mod=hp_listb_pos2\">12 seats<\/a> out of a 630 total.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If Germany reinstates conscription, holding a German passport means possibly fighting in a foreign war, while not holding a German passport means access to the welfare state.<\/p>\n<p>The German government pays foreigners while contemplating sacrificing what is left of its native youth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a1NZ1gfd7y\">pic.twitter.com\/a1NZ1gfd7y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ralph Schoellhammer (@Raphfel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raphfel\/status\/1957869799494807586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the German armed forces &#8212; the\u00a0<em>Bundeswehr<\/em> &#8212; has about 180,000 service members. The government said it was laying out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/german-coalition-government-agrees-new-military-service-plan\/a-74726370\">a plan to have 260,000 people on active-duty service<\/a>, with another 200,000 reservists, which is triple the current reserve force. In the first step, to be taken in 2026, <strong>the government will send questionnaires to every 18-year-old in the country. Men will be legally obliged to complete it;<\/strong> for women, it will be optional. The questionnaires will gauge respondents&#8217; inclination and willingness to serve.\u00a0Then, starting in July 2027, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gpkerdn9qo\">men will be required to report for a medical examination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germany drafted men for military service from 1956 until 2011<\/strong>, when the country adopted the US model of a professional, voluntary force. Rather than abolishing conscription &#8212; which would have required a constitutional amendment &#8212; it was merely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/01\/world\/europe\/01germany.html\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0that year.\u00a0Reinstating it would only require a simple majority of the parliament. However, unless the constitution is changed, women will remain exempt.<\/p>\n<p>For now, conscription will not be put to a vote, as the government hopes to achieve its enormous military expansion &#8212; 44% growth in active-duty ranks &#8212; via recruitment of willing volunteers.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/13\/germany-decides-against-conscription-to-replenish-post-cold-war-military\">\u201cWe will make voluntary service more attractive,\u201d<\/a> said Jens Spahn, parliamentary leader of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) party. \u201cWe want to win over as many young people as possible for the service for the fatherland.\u201d <strong>If that fails, however, &#8220;we&#8217;ll need to make it obligatory,&#8221; <\/strong>he added. Without providing details, the government has said a lottery system would be employed. The Bundeswehr will report on its recruitment efforts every six months, ready to request the reinstatement of conscription to make up any shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll for Stern magazine found that a slim majority of Germans favored reinstating the draft. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gpkerdn9qo\">63% of Germans between 18 and 29 years old opposed it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>German defense minister <strong>Boris Pistorius <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gpkerdn9qo\">told<\/a> Germans there was &#8220;no cause for concern&#8230;no reason for fear&#8230;<\/strong>The more capable of deterrence and defense our armed forces are, through armament through training and through personnel, the less likely it is that we will become a party to a conflict at all.&#8221; Pistorius and Chancellor Friedrich Merz have set a goal for having Europe&#8217;s largest military and to be &#8220;war-ready&#8221; by 2029.\u00a0Doing its part to promote German militarism, the <em>Wall Street Journal&#8217;<\/em>s report on the conscription plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/berlins-answer-to-its-conscription-conundrum-a-massive-medical-database-5728dd42?mod=hp_listb_pos2\">credulously cited unnamed &#8220;military analysts [who] think Russia may be able and willing to attack NATO&#8221; by that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/germany-marches-toward-reinstating-military-conscription-starting-fitness-database\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany prepares for conflict with Russia as it moves to reintroduce military conscription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318569,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318564\/revisions\/318569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}