conscript

Here, the Russian conscripts are either mean but brave or they just have rotten luck.

Moscow legally bars conscripts from being deployed to combat, but after the military service men enter Russia's reserves, making them eligible to be drafted in future rounds of mobilisation.

But the big loser has been the lover of nonfiction history, as the founding era became a subject conscripted into a turf war over important moral and factual issues.

The elaborate practice of the "evzones", elite infantry conscripts wearing skirts, white stockings and clogs, routinely draws a wall of tourist smartphones.

Others took the opposite path and joined or were conscripted into Islamic State.