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Let's consider bringing back the draft.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
We have had troops on the ground in Afghanistan for nearly a year and the administration continues to press for a war with Iraq that would involve calling up a quarter of a million reservists.
This is a good time to revisit a policy issue that has stayed quiet for 25 years. Namely, we should bring back the military draft.
Now there is an assertion that won't bring in a flood of positive e-mails. But I believe it merits consideration.
In modern industrial societies such as ours, compulsory military service is economically preferable to an all-volunteer system.
I'll acknowledge at the outset that this assertion is not conventional wisdom among economists. Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate and far brighter person than I, argued just the opposite. But I think his analysis is incomplete.
Friedman argued that compulsory military service constitutes a ...
- Bulgaria ends compulsory military service.
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack November 26, 2007 700+ words
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Bulgaria has abolished mandatory military service for young men, clearing the way for fully professional armed forces. The last group of conscripts have been discharged, the Sofia News Agency...
- Germans debate preservation of compulsory military service.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 11, 2003 700+ words
...to compulsory military service as so few young men actually serve...Germany, so few young men perform their military service today that conscription...average 70,700 young men per year only...their basic military service. More than...
- Compulsory military service may likely end by next year.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 15, 2003 700+ words
...which is intended for young men with families, in bad financial...along with the end of military service, civilian service for young men who refuse to bear arms will also end. Presently, military service lasts for one year, which...
- Czech compulsory military service to be scrapped by end 2004.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire October 15, 2003 700+ words
...Announcer] The compulsory military service will be scrapped by the...be cut, the compulsory military service will remain 12-months...scrapping of the compulsory military service. Some 40,000 young men will still be conscripted...
- Albanians "press-ganged" into military service - commentary.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports January 31, 2009 700+ words
...Thousands of young men who work or study...Henceforth, military service will no longer...professional military service, which nobody...to volunteer military service, which gives all able-bodied young men the chance to...
- Conscripts can work at enterprises during military service - Turkmen paper.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 10, 2004 700+ words
...completing their military service. I have no doubt that the young men who gained various...skills, then such young men can also be forwarded...job placement of young men who completed their military service. Direct assistance...
- Buinessmen face arrest for taking bribes to help men avoid military service.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea May 16, 2007 700+ words
...bribes in return for hiring 16 young men in companies where employees may be exmpted from military service. The government allows some...national interests to exempt young men from military service, even though all men aged...
- Military service cut to take effect in Jan.
- Newspaper article from: China Post November 29, 2005 700+ words
...out that before the Military Service Law was amended, conscripts could only start military service at 20. After the new...before they can start military service. It is also difficult for the young men to find a job that allows...
- S. Korea to allow conscientious objectors to refuse military service.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea September 19, 2007 700+ words
...mandatory military service, mainly...Hundreds of young men have opted...to those young men who refuse military service because of...number of young men who opt for...to refuse military service because of...
- Court gives backing to military service Conscientious objectors lose battle in...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 16, 2004 700+ words
...Court has ruled that young men must perform compulsory military service regardless of any conscientious...constitution, which mandates military service but also guarantees the...to perform compulsory military service. "Choi violated the...
Source: HighBeam Research, Let's consider bringing back the draft.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)