original post said: > since becoming an all volunteer army recruitment has been an expensive challenge. Implying the issue is a volunteer army. If that's the

original post said: > since becoming an all volunteer army recruitment has been an expensive challenge. Implying the issue is a volunteer army. If that's the case, Canada would have the same problem as it's also a volunteer army. If your argument is that it's not about being a volunteer army, it's about the scale of the military, you might be right... we'd have to compare the personnel number to recruitment budget ratio between NATO countries to get a sense of that.