{"id":205972,"date":"2026-04-27T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/defence-which-european-countries-have-mandatory-and-voluntary-military-service\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:49:01","slug":"defence-which-european-countries-have-mandatory-and-voluntary-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/defence-which-european-countries-have-mandatory-and-voluntary-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence: Which European countries have mandatory and voluntary military service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries across Europe are reviving conscription amid shrinking military numbers and heightened geopolitical tensions worldwide. Can mandatory military service fill the gaps?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/27\/defence-which-european-countries-have-mandatory-and-voluntary-military-service\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries across Europe are reviving conscription amid shrinking military numbers and heightened geopolitical tensions worldwide. Can mandatory military service fill the gaps? Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":205973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}