Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a qualm that may trouble those who successfully follow Suttler's or Tatum's advice: if the draft misses one person. it finds another to do its dirty work. The quick reply is that if you don't resist, you will be in uniform, killing and being killed; and there is no convincing evidence why that is any better than someone else doing...
...mean another's failure-if all are ready to resist. The same loophole that lets out one man can accommodate a hundred more. if all are properly informed. The problem is that such campaigns of attrition will be futile-and will lead to even greater class discrimination in the draft-as long as thousands of victims ride uninformed to the slaughter. Cambridge needs books like IV-F and the Handbook: but the Army's supply of hamburger will be cut off only when the lifesaving manuals also reach Chelsea. Roxbury, and other favorite manpower pools...
SINCE 1948, when the present draft law went into effect, numerous suggestions have been made on ways to reform the draft. Those who object to the arbitrary workings of draft boards have advocated a more standardized system of draftee selection, such as the lottery. Others, concerned with the injustice of deferments for the rich and privileged, have recommended an end to college deferments. Neither step leads to equity, however, for even in a no-deferment lottery system, some must serve while the vast majority of eligible males need...
Since conscription is basically unjust, programs requiring everyone to serve are hardly the solution. The answer is not to reform the draft but to repeal...
Without promising that he plans to do so soon, President Nixon has said that he hopes to replace the draft with an all-volunteer military. Shortly after his inauguration, he appointed a commission chaired by Thomas Gates (a former Secretary of Defense) to study the feasibility of an "all-volunteer armed force...