That will be down to the UK government not NATO.

It is certainly possible. But our current military leaders have made it clear in the past,

1 career milatary volunteer is worth 100s of untrained forced fighters.

The cost of training huge numbers of conscripted fighters. When fighting a modern battle. Is not going to be the first choice of our military by any means. Moving from a total voluntary army to conscription would take a huge change in our forces. More so then the US that at least still keeps records suitable for drafting young fighters.

I'm doubtful. Conscript soldiers are great for filling trenches; for specialized and technical fields that first world armies like the UK and rest of NATO employ, it's not nearly as useful. The training is simply too involved and time consuming.

How does one prepare for conscription? Keep a bag packed, just in case?

Both my grandfather's on both sides fought in both world war 1 and world war II and all four were killed, so there doesn't really seem to be much future in conscription.

This is bullshit. There will be no war between NATO and Russia of the type that needs Britons to conscript. Russia has few meat sacks left to send into any war. Having sacrificed 350,000 of its youth in Ukraine, Russia is scraping then bottom of the barrel for chumps willing the have their guts splattered on distant frozen farm fields. Russia now has to resort to mining prisons and third world countries for troops. What remains of Russia's war materiel (tanks, vehicles, etc) is antiquated. When it comes to conventional warfare, Russia is a joke.

Now nukes and missles on the other hand, that's a different story. Russia has plenty of them. But again, if Russia hits NATO with something like that, retaliation is like-for-like, and no foot soldiers are needed.

But it won't come to that because in spite of Russia's blustering and the media's fear mongering, Russia knows that such a strike on nato would mean the end of Russia. And Russia wants to continue to exist.

Guess I'm going to jail then

The math says no - UK youth is too disillusioned with its nation to reliably fight for it under pressure.

Nationalism is the domain of our older citizens, while our youth has grown up under a government that has slowly stripped them of their rights. We do have a lot of propaganda around, but most of it is anti-government, so no loyalty gIns there.

A draft would only be likely if an invasion of the UK were a possibility - and I suspect folks would fight against occupation.

This article is just clickbait, nothing more.

The great Tory plan to just kill off and thin the heard rather than address the social issues they've caused.

Here they are doing drills:

https://youtu.be/7-2jLLMdEBw

That'll go over well

Fuck right off

Thing will be, will the population support this? Do they care enough about countries not their own? It will probably be Poland, do people care enough about Poland to get fired up to fight? Nationalism/Brexit/racism has been demonizing Pols as both taking our jobs and scrounging benefits. Plus Russia is whispering in their social media feeds and so they don't think Russia is that bad. We're in a right old state.

best of luck to ya

Why you're ex my lad

Totally radicalised by military careers. They think every problem should be solved by soldiers and tanks.

We rightly call out extremism in many forms and this should be no different.

More fearmongering for the cowards afraid of Putler.

Fuck Putler and fuck his dumb fucking war.

All we need to do is give Ukraine the kit she needs to win. Not even 10% of Nato's gear would be more than enough.