partly, but since a wider selection of the population will join the internal culture will change too. the population in general will be connected to the military to a much higher degree, and also have more of a say in how it's run

you mean what experience i have personally? it's the system we had in sweden until the year i became eligible to join, funnily enough. if i had been a man i could have joined at 17, but girls need to be of age to volunteer.
my sister, her bf, my father, male neighbors, my uncles, male teachers, etc. have almost all done their year