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...Hagel raised the possibility that a volunteer military may not be sufficient going forward. Pentagon officials remain opposed to restoring the draft, abolished in 1973, confident that an older and more experienced enlisted force performs better than younger, revolving-door draftees. "I don't know anyone in the Executive Branch of the government who believes that it would be appropriate or necessary to reinstitute the draft," Rumsfeld said. Churning military manpower through a draft, he has long argued, yields less experienced soldiers at a higher cost...
...place. The government’s lawyer, Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, claims that because the war on terror is global the whole of the United States is a battleground as well. But if the Supreme Court accepts this justification, it will open the way for the Executive Branch to wield the same kinds of “emergency powers” so often misused in Third World dictatorships. Because the war on terror has no borders and no way of being declared “over,” the Bush Administration can effectively continue to detain Padilla...
...part of the package, the NSEP requires students to use the skills they learn while abroad working for any branch of the government for a similar time period...
Upon graduation, those students who are members of the ROTC advanced courses will be commissioned according to existing regulations. Others will be ordered on duty with the branch of the Army for which they are best suited. They will then take the regular basic course, and thereafter, if qualified, they will be ordered to the proper Officer Candidate Schools, from which they will be commissioned as second lieutenants...
...Leonard Alkins, the president of the Boston branch NAACP, disputed the notion that standardized tests were a good measure of achievement...