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Podcast: UK Column News
Episode: Military Matters: Does Your Country Need You? — with Brian Gerrish and Charles Malet
Description: Not since 1963 has the burden of compulsory military service saddled the younger generation. Messaging on the subject, though, has graduated from covert whispers to overt declarations of the necessity to achieve ‘warfighting readiness’. 2025 has seen the publication of the Strategic Defence Review and the National Security Strategy, both predicated on the existential threat posed by so-called ‘Russian aggression’.The Sunak Administration suggested a form of national service, with financial consequences for non-compliance, and the Labour regime continues to push for 30% of the armed forces to be women by 2030. With the recruitment process itself hived off to the private...