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The reason? The initial surge of recruits, driven by high bonuses, has long since subsided. The remaining potential recruits are being enticed with ever-increasing incentives—up to hundreds of thousands of dollars—designed to attract a shrinking pool of volunteers willing to fight. This escalation resembles rural areas in the U.S., where the wages needed to entice soldiers to enlist have skyrocketed to astronomical levels, sometimes exceeding annual salaries multiple times over.