Defense Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania announced that Georgia will gradually move to a fully professional army, abandoning conscription system.
“We plan to move fully on professional army in four years. The term of compulsory military service will be gradually reduced (from current 15 months) to 12 months, and then we will fully move to a contract-based army,” said Alasania, adding “We should not be forcing anyone to be enrolled in the army”.
Note, Georgia has now mixed system based on both contracts and conscription.