Historically, rulers liked censuses, because they enable them to conscript and tax their people.
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Iraq's conscript regular army, expected by many to fold quickly and easily, instead has displayed considerable resistance.
Another former protester chafes that soon he will have to serve, as a conscript, the government he loathes.
Should they be afforded special protection when the unwilling teenage conscript is not?
Launched in a post-conscript age, it can be seen as a return to the historical condition that preceded total war.
Unpaid military service has been scaled down and, unlike General Pinochet's conscript-packed army, all national-service places are now filled by volunteers.
Many Israelis have come to resent the need for their conscript soldiers to risk their lives defending tiny and isolated settlements.
He has also written a book on the subject, the Forgotten Conscript.
Colleges eager to conscript Franklin could offer Schmitz a coaching job a recruiting strategy that is not unprecedented in cases involving a huge star.
Neither Britain's small, professional forces nor Germany's large, conscript forces were designed to fight an offensive land war against a medium-sized European power.
The FSA groups, who say they have about 50, 000 fighters against a largely conscript government force of around 280, 000, are only loosely linked.
And I know it can seem that my desire for you to succeed me sounds like an attempt to conscript you into forced family service.
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The army, a highly respected conscript army, has the reigns now.
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The military, with a conscript army, is one of the most respected institutions in the country, despite the fact that Mubarak himself came from the armed forces.
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Compared with the immobile, conscript armies that many European states are still fielding, British forces can make a reasonable claim to be leaner, meaner and more modern.
Most are run, heroically, by the passionately committed, usually with a direct connection to the cause for example, the mother of a maimed conscript or of a handicapped child.
Russia maintains a large conscript army with a long history of personnel problems that include bullying, ethnic tensions and malnutrition, as well as death and injury during training exercises.
Even into the 1990s China had little more than a conscript army of ill-educated peasants using equipment based largely on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and outdated cold-war (or even guerrilla-war) doctrine.
Appearing Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" and Monday on CNN, Rangel said he intends to introduce legislation early next year that would require the government to conscript young American men for military service.
At the very least, over time, the cumulative effect of having the conscript-based Turkish army obliged to fill its ranks with products of an increasingly Islamist-dominated educational system cannot be positive for either the Europeans or the Free World beyond.
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