Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this war, the draft won't be militarily or politically feasible," says retired Rear Adm. Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., an analyst with the military watchdog group Center for Defense Information...
...while chances of the draft were called slim by almost every expert contacted, several spelled out scenarios in which it could become a reality...
President Bush is committed to a volunteer army, but if the war were to last six months or more with heavy casualties, the draft would necessarily become a viable option, says Jay Kosminsky, deputy director of defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation...
Kosminsky says that the length of the war, rather than the number of combat injuries or deaths, will be the most important factor in deciding whether to institute a draft, because troops need to be rotated out of combat after a certain length of duty...
...Bush or lawmakers on Capital Hill are considering the draft as an option, most of them certainly aren't letting...