When did the UK have conscription and could it make a return?
Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, the head of the British Army, recently said that people must be prepared to support the armed forces by participating in a war if called upon to do so.
Referring to people in the UK as a "prewar generation", the army chief suggested that preparation for any major conflict would be a "whole-of-nation undertaking". Sanders' remarks were read as a warning to civilians to be ready should Nato go to war with Russia.
Sanders, who is retiring as chief of the General Staff in the Army this summer, referred to the UK's allies as examples ever break out.
