Major reform efforts began in the mid-2000s to replace a system which still resembled the Soviet Union's. But to outside eyes, the system for recruits seems eerily similar. The fitness standards ...

A Soviet-style military is "a more comfortable ... such as shifting away from mass conscript armies to a professional volunteer force. The problem is that these reforms have tended to be stymied ...

A person named BROWN, since the passage of the Conscript law and the call of the President, was elected Justice of the Peace. The Probate Court refused to accept his bond, on the ground that he ...