Peter Suciu
Russia has struggled to produce its most advanced military platforms and has fewer than three dozen Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighters in service. It has also given up on mass-manufacturing the T-14 Armata main battle tank (MBT), while the production of the T-90M MBTs can barely keep up with combat losses.
Yet, what was true more than a century ago during the First World War remains true today. Russia is a massive land with a large population to draw from, a fact noted as the Kremlin announced that spring military conscription would begin on April 1, surpassing the 133,000 personnel who were conscripted last fall.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that would see as many as 160,000 individuals, citizens aged eighteen to thirty, being called up for military service. The conscription, which is slated to be even more significant than the 150,000 drafted last spring, will reportedly run from April 1 to June 15.
Such numbers are needed due to the considerable losses the Kremlin has taken in its ongoing war in Ukraine but also because many previously conscripted military personnel will be discharged as their term of service has expired.
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