Denmark plans to enlist women and young people for military service by increasing service time from four to 11 months, the Danish government said on Wednesday.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is pushing for the move, which would make Denmark one of few countries to require women to serve in the armed forces. . “We do not rearm because we want war. We are rearming because we want to avoid it.”
The Nordic country wants to boost its military conscripts from 4,700 to 5,000. The government itself already has 9,000 troops enlisted. Although “Russia does not pose a threat to Denmark,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, “we will not bring ourselves to a place where they could come to do that.”
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