Military recruitment
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Military recruitment is the act of requesting people, usually male, to join a military voluntarily. Involuntary military recruitment is conscription. Recruitment is necessary to maintain an effective standing army in countries that have abolished conscription or which operate a volunteer military. To facilitate this process, militaries have established recruiting commands. These units are solely responsible for increasing military enlistment.
Military recruitment can be considered part of military science if analysed as part of military history. Acquiring large amounts of forces in a relatively short period of time, especially voluntarily, as opposed to stable development, is a frequent phenomenon in history. One particular example is the regeneration of the military strength of the Communist Party of China from a depleted force of 8,000 following the Long March in 1934 into 2.8 million near the end of the Chinese Civil War 14 years later.
[edit] Recruitment Posters
A recruitment poster is a poster used in advertisement to recruit people into an organization, and is the most popularized method of military recruitment .
 A Canadian WWI recruitment poster |
 A World War I recruitment poster featuring Lord Kitchener (British Minister of War) |
 J. M. Flagg's Uncle Sam recruited soldiers for World War I. Based on the Kitchener poster. |
 An Australian WWI recruitment poster |
