The New Valkyries? Denmark Sees Deteriorating European Security, Will Conscript Women for Military Service
It’s the classic Hamlet quote: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
It’s the war season in the Old Continent. Wherever you go in Europe, they fret about ‘war and war’s alarms.’
If you couple that with the decades-old trend of bigger female participation in all lines of activity, you get the phenomenon of the woman soldier resurfacing from the distant past into out 21st-century dystopia.
Nordic Denmark, in a bid to increase the number of young people doing military service, is taking a cue from neighbors Sweden and Norway, and will extend conscription to women.
So, now, we are not talking about the right to be a voluntary soldier,
