The anti-war movement today possesses a priceless legacy of the movement against the Vietnam War: the power elite's fear of political costs of the draft. The power elite are afraid of backlashes against the draft inside and outside the military, so they have hesitated to reinstate it, but they have no recent experience of using a volunteer military in a brutal counter-insurgency war, and it is not clear if they really can for long: -- Full Text:

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/no-troops-no-wars.html

-- Yoshie


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