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If the experience of the Korean and Vietnam War generations is any measure, the draft could instead create a cohort of sullen, angry young people forced into service. Since the Revolution, Americans have always done better at tasks for which they volunteered than those into which they were coerced. [...] I do not believe reinstatement of the military draft is politically realistic at this time.
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National Service
To the Editor:The call for compulsory universal national service by Carol Armistead Grigsby in the Winter 2008-09 issue of Parameters is flawed because it ignores constitutional and legal constraints and a number of other arguments against it.Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution authorizes the Congress "to raise and support armies," "to provide and maintain a Navy," and to take o...See the full content of this document
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