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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12680)	12/4/2001 12:35:54 PM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 281500

Now how all this applies to Foriegn Affairs? Well, outside of being a strong believer in the Peace Corps program, I guess all of this is pretty off topic.... yeah, but I just put you on the SI Highlights thread so you must be doing something right... :o) --fl

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12680)	12/4/2001 4:15:40 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

re:- National Service. There is a large swathe of most countries population that would benefit directly from National Service. The training, education, health care, and just general perception they are a team member in a country would be of personal help to them imho. The "mixing" of various levels of the economic strata was believed to be of help too e.g. WW2. I believe Russia still has the draft, last year is yielded 200,000 new recruits. Here some recent PRAVADA press. GENERAL BELIEVES RUSSIA SHOULD NOT COMPLETELY GIVE UP CONSCRIPTION Russia should not completely give up conscription, and an optimum strength of the Russian Army must be 1.3 million servicemen, General Anatoly Kulikov said at "The Military and Society: Time of Change" conference, under way in Moscow. He said a 1.3-million-strong army would correspond to the real assessment of the situation in the country and beyond, as well as to existing threats to Russia's security. Approximately 30 percent of all servicemen must be drafted, the general said. english.pravda.ru