“The end of conscription in most of the West is a response to these pressures.”

“It is at this point that even those governments who have shunned it in peacetime resort to the third method of recruitment, conscription.”

“Mines and constant ambushes depleted the government forces, which had quadrupled in size to 60,000 through heavy conscription.”

“A conscript army was considered the corollary of a democratic society.”