Pioneers of suicide-bombings, they have an appalling record of terrorism, assassination, extortion, kidnapping and the conscription of children as soldiers.
Boys will graduate from high school not at 17, as now, but at the conscription age of 18, and will not have time to try to gain acceptance to colleges that could grant draft exemptions.
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It appears that the end of conscription and the growing professionalization in the ranks has produced a political culture tending to favor conservatives.
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While this is still below the general conscription rate of 75% among male 18-year-olds, the rapid rise in ultra-Orthodox military service is a revolutionary development for the sector.
Inside Germany, the main issue remains conscription and the Zivildienst, the civilian alternative to military service.
Even more important is Mr Barak's agreement with the ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism, on new rules for the military conscription of students at yeshivas, or Talmudic colleges.
His staff even anticipates that the return of conscription may be required to fill the ranks if the all-volunteer force simply cannot withstand such buffeting.
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The army has also floated the idea of abolishing conscription, to streamline the forces a move that would call its own special role in Turkish public life into question.
The IDF assesses that by 2015, the rate of conscription will rise to 65%.
In the latter case, one such unwanted cost may be the need for conscription to meet our military requirements.
And then the fairness issue, throughout the history of conscription in this country, finds situations in which groups like women might well be included.
To be fair, the first years of his presidency did witness achievements: bold plans to end conscription and streamline the armed forces, to overhaul France's sickly public-health system, revamp the arms industry, sell off or deregulate swathes of the public sector.
It was envisaged that both would remain within the union, but an attempt in 1918 to extend conscription to Ireland proved the final nail in the coffin.
The government has been much encouraged by a rebellion against Maoist exactions, such as forced conscription, in the district of Dailekh, once one of their strongholds.
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Witness French failure even to inform the Germans before taking such decisions affecting Germany as the ending of military conscription.
But most Germans still feel that conscription is the key to getting people to accept the armed forces and welcome it as a tool of social integration.
While the original idea of conscription was to build a military that reflected wider society, German leaders now feel that democracy is so embedded that constraints on its role can be loosened.
The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.
With the debacle of Vietnam long gone and conscription no longer a dread prospect for America's young men, the forces tend to be held in high civilian esteem.
There was universal conscription, and the country spent something like 10% of GDP on the Pentagon and the global struggle against communism.
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Of course, the major thing that's changed since Vietnam is we no longer have conscription, so everybody's who in the military - they may not like what they're doing at the moment, or they may be held past the point they planned to get out - but basically, they're there as volunteers.
He recently finished military service himself (raising eyebrows in Russia, where conscription is only for the hapless: Mr Ilves's father is Estonia's president).
Citizenship mattered in the days when defence relied on conscription.
Conscription is really on the way out (Germany is only the latest instance to show this) because it hardly makes sense to have your well-educated engineers (for example) locked away for a year in the military.
At that time Mayans, in addition to the destruction of whole villages, and sometimes of their occupants too, endured mass displacement (to Mexico in the north, or to the cities), rape and conscription into civil militias.
Newly independent South Sudan is a rare example of conscription being introduced (in the hope of supplanting private militias).
Tens of thousands of able-bodied ultra-Orthodox men defer their conscription year after year on the pretext of devoting their lives to religious study.
At the very least, should they decide to do so, they should indicate whether they are prepared to vote for a return to conscription - which will be the practical effect of breaking the all-volunteer force.
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That viability may, in turn, determine our ability to avoid in the years ahead, as we have for the past four decades, a return to conscription to meet our requirements for warriors in those conflicts.
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