To “meet the needs of the armies”, France is launching a marketing campaign on Monday to recruit a number of thousand younger folks for a brand new paid “national service”, lasting ten months. This initiative, introduced in November by President Emmanuel Macron, ought to make it attainable to handle the elevated dangers of battle.
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