department of justice mr rosenbaum thank you very much. well here in germany compulsory military service or conscription was abolished in two thousand and eleven a germany is not an outlier here most european countries decided years ago to start converting their armed forces into purely professional armies won't was that the right decision or some lawmakers here in germany say the country needs more boots on the ground made possible by conscription i'll be talking to a member of the us talk about that in just a moment but first we look at the case of sweden like germany sweden abolished military service but unlike germany sweden is now reintroducing it one argument the growing aggression posed by russia and the annexation of crimea is sweden's new way of building a military delivering what lawmakers have promised an example that these young people are undergoing military training in sweden's forests are being put into shape to defend their country. this year sweden introduced conscription lasting eleven months for every high school graduat