November 24, 2023
Nov 2023 - Larelli

WW1 France had over 300k boys turning 18 in each year of the war. Health conditions at the time were worse so some had exemptions, but socially it was not a problem to draft most of them and send them to the trenches. Ukraine doesn’t mobilize 18-year-olds and in any case they are a fraction of the number that France (and the other major powers of WW1) had available back then.

Also, I think the KIAs estimates from the leaks were definitely underestimated for both sides.