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The Czech Armed Forces (Czech: Armáda České republiky, lit. 'the Army of the Czech Republic'), also known as the Czech Army, is the military service responsible for the defence of the Czech Republic as part of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic (Czech: ozbrojené síly České republiky) [11] alongside the Military Office of the President of the Republic and the Castle Guard. [12]
The number of personnel in paramilitary forces: armed units that are not considered part of a nation's formal military forces. The total number of active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel. The ratio per thousand inhabitants of total military (active, reserve, and paramilitary). The ratio per thousand inhabitants of active military only. As ...
The Armed Forces of the Czech Republic (Czech: Ozbrojené síly České republiky) are the military forces of the Czech Republic.They consist of the Army of the Czech Republic, the Military Office of the President of the Czech Republic and the Castle Guard, as defined by the Act No. 219/1999, on the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic.
Cape Verde – 17 (voluntary), 18 (compulsory) Cambodia – 18 (compulsory) Cameroon – 18 (voluntary) Canada – 18 (voluntary; volunteers can join the Reserves and enter the Military Colleges at age 16, or join the regular forces at age 17 with parental consent)
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
Slovakia allows some foreigners to join, on the condition that they are citizens of an EU member state or a state that is a member of an international defence organisation from which Slovakia is a member. [29] Spain. Spanish Armed Forces – Spain recruits citizens of its former Empire (except Morocco, the Philippines and Puerto Rico).
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Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the Canadian Expeditionary Force was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas ...