This book is a report of cross-national research that that explores the expectation, motivation and satisfaction of the new recruits from Belgium, France, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey's armed forces toward the basic military training. It both aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the basic training in order to contribute to the improvement of training quality, and increase a common understanding of questions related to the basic military training such leadership quality, self-images, motivation to further career in the armed forces and so forth.