Defend Decision Against the U.S. Draft
Against the Draft
The United States is still in the midst of a harsh and unrelenting conflict in both Iraq and Afghanistan. As out forces continue to struggle, many within the United States have begun advocating the need to reinstate the military conscription known as the draft as a way to increase the variety and number of troops serving in today's contemporary military structure. However, these arguments prove to be problematic, and it is clear that reinstating the draft would not properly diversify the military, and would rather only subjugate American men from enjoying the freedom of choice -- an essential element to the freedom so many fight and die for.
The American military draft was a practice of the Select Service System. According to the research, "For more than 50 years, Selective Service and the registration requirement for America's young men have served as a backup system to provide manpower to the U.S. Armed Forces," (Powers, 2010, p 1). The draft as we know of it today was started by then president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 in order to increase the number of service members in the military during one of the United States most prolific wars, World War II (Selective Service System, 2011). The president drafted the Selective Training and Selective Service Act in order to ensure the American military had the numbers it needed to overthrow the axis powers. From 1948 to 1973, the draft was used as a mandatory way to "fill vacancies in the armed forces which could not be filled through voluntary means," (Powers, 2010, p 1). The draft was done in a lottery where birthdates...
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