Military recruitment is the act of requesting people, usually male, to join a military voluntarily. Involuntary military recruitment is conscription. In countries that have abolished conscription, recruitment is necessary to maintain an effective standing army. 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.

See also

• America's Army (game)
• Counter-recruitment
• No Child Left Behind Act
• Recruitment poster
• Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights
• Solomon Amendment

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