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KellyCriterion 2 days ago

for the risk of getting downvoted:

why only locals, but no migrants?

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TMWNN 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

>why only locals, but no migrants?

Even if they are included, they wouldn't join up.

More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British military. <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/her-majestys-jih...>

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nicbou 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would non-citizens get drafted in the military?

	▲	TMWNN 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The US draft included non-citizen legal residents, such as Howard Stringer. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stringer>

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itsyonas 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

? This includes all male citizens aged 18 - 45.

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nubg 2 days ago | parent [-]

It doesn't, only German citizens

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a3w 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

does citizen and German not mean the same thing? Are EU citizens living permanently in germany even considered to have a duty to either militarily or in civil service serve in war times?

	▲	est31 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not a lawyer but the German constitution, Article 12a, speaks of men above 18, not of citizens, or even residents of Germany. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h... So that article can in theory be used to conscript any man, citizen or not, living in Germany or not. The Wehrpflichtgesetz, which is a simple law and requires just the 50% Bundestag majority to have it changed, refines this very wide constitutional power in article 1, to require men who hold German citizenship above 18. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/BJNR006510956.ht... Article 3 refines it even further to folks below 45 or 60, depending on the severity of the situation. But yes, in theory it can be changed to include any non-German citizen man, people aged 80, living inside of Germany since a while or never having been to Germany ever, or just random men who happen to change flights at FRA.

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itsyonas 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Immigrants can be German citizens.