Word: enlistable
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...enable the Presidents to concentrate on economics. They want the U.S. to use its influence to help stabilize the world price of such crops as coffee, cocoa and sugar so that fluctuations on the world market will no longer wipe out their export earnings. They also want to enlist U.S. assistance in building new border-spanning roads, rail lines and communications systems to help Latin America become a more closely knit society...
...this country has always been dominated, psychologically and spiritually, by civilian attitudes; witness the endemic griping, loyalty with a touch of skepticsm, the general counting of the days until one's time is up. This is made possible only by the non-voluntary aspect of membership; even those who enlist may claim that they did it because they knew it was coming. And it means that the membership feels an overall identity with the free society. The military is an autocracy in which actions are dictated but not attitudes; it may be an unpleasant experience for the free citizen...
...laws of economics predict that if wages for military service are raised, then enlistments will increase as well. Few people are so poor that they have no alternative but to respond to the offer of higher wages. Those who enlist are simply deciding that, all things considered, it is in their own best interest to join the army. This is hardly coercion...
...evils of deserting Communism's united front Ulbricht even appealed to the Soviet Union to call a halt to the trafficking with Bonn. It did no good. The Russians feared that their orders might not be heeded and might even alienate some countries that they are trying to enlist for support in their quarrel with Red China. Despite their usual cries about German militarism, they are not trying to stop West Germany's diplomatic and commercial drive to the East...
...side are those who are drafted, or who enlist under pressure. Few of them ever go to Vietnam, and only a fraction of the soldiers in Vietnam ever see combat. But the experience of serving in the military during wartime, like the experience of war itself, changes all of them--cramming a large piece of hell into a few short years, ignoring the shelters provided in civilian life by education and wealth...