European NATO Countries Failing to Reach Army Recruitment Goals

Elvis Dunderhoff August 12, 2024

People will only fight in a war if they think there is something worth dying for.

Or, in the rare case, such as the wars the West has been fighting in the Middle East for the last 2 and a half decades, when they don’t think there is a very high chance they will die.

No one really believes in Western ideology enough to die for it. And unlike the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is a really high chance that if you went to one of these upcoming wars, you would die.

It’s a big problem.

Reuters:

As instructors shout commands, dozens of students taking part in a pilot Czech army programme aimed at boosting flagging enlistment numbers crawl through forest scrub carrying combat rifles and learning proper shooting positions.

Like most former Soviet-satellite states now in NATO, the Czech Republic has missed recruitment targets for years and struggled to maintain troop levels. This has left army units understaffed and unable to reach combat readiness, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on eastern Europe’s fringes, a stark reminder of Moscow’s potential threat to the region.

Around 80 Czech high school students chose to spend part of their summer learning about army life at the four-week training programme being conducted in a closed military zone 94 km (58 miles) west of the capital Prague.

But General Karel Rehka, the Czech armed forces chief, has called the current system unsustainable.

He told Reuters the programme run by the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade – an army unit operating at just 50 percent of capacity due to a dearth of soldiers – gives students an early taste of army life.

“We want to deter any potential adversary in the future,” Rehka said. “If we don’t do anything about the lack of human resources in the military…, it may mean that we won’t be able to preserve our peace and to deter any potential enemy.”

In 2021 the Czechs reached 56 percent of their recruiting goal, rising to 85 percent in 2022, according to the most recent army data.

The Czechs are not alone. Countries across eastern Europe have struggled to sign up new soldiers and keep experienced ones in a region where Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia all share a border with Ukraine.

“We cannot do anything without people – if we modernise equipment and don’t have enough competent people and motivated people, that is all wasted money,” Rehka said.

Western European nations in NATO face similar challenges. In July Reuters reported that NATO will need between 35 and 50 extra brigades to fully realise its new plans to defend against any attack on alliance territory from Russia.

Maybe you’re thinking “but the gays and the women really do believe in this system.”

That may or may not be true. I don’t know. I’m not a gay or a woman.

But even if that is the case, you’re not going to have an army completely made up of gays and women. That is not realistic.

If the US starts a real war with Russia or China, or maybe even with Iran, the US and other Western countries are going to have to conscript soldiers.

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