Homage to the Epistolary

Conscription

Please read the following article “Plans to reduce military service in South”.

Use the following writing prompts to “generate” ideas to best express your viewpoints and reactions to the issues at hand.

- Other countries that also have conscription are Lebanon, Israel, China, Germany, and Finland. How do you see these countries need for obligatory military service compared with Cyprus? What historical elements warrant certain countries an obvious need for increased military numbers?

- What sort of alternative service option might be equally beneficial to traditional military service?

- What sort of advantages does one have to gain through military service and what does a young person stand to lose?

- What is a conscientious objector and under what sort of conscription circumstance could you see yourself as being a conscientious objector. Perhaps in a hypothetoical scenario, what historical example of conscription could you impathize with conscientious objectors?

- Is the current time requirement for military service adequate? Do you find it excessive, or perhaps not long enough?

Also, have a look at the following interactive map denoting countries with conscription.
- as well as this wikipedia entry detailing terms of conscription.