Austria will hold a public referendum on whether to extend compulsory military service, Chancellor Christian Stocker ...

Austria’s Jagdkommando is an elite special forces unit shaped by brutal selection, alpine warfare, global deployments, and a Never Retreat ethos.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has updated the GESI constructive simulation software for command and staff training at the Austrian Army’s Landesverteidigungsakademie education ...

Across Europe, countries are shifting from volunteer soldiers to conscript armies — with Austria now also weighing up whether to extend its mandatory military service.

Historically neutral, the country is set to double military spending, even in the midst of a budget crisis, as its neighbors also spend big to counter Russia. By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F.