Americans and Their Military: The Case for Bringing Back the Draft | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

Americans and Their Military: The Case for Bringing Back the Draft | TIME Ideas | TIME.com ;.. Without that direct connection, the politics of war are inescapably different than what they would be if the children of the most influential families in communities across America were at risk of being drafted to face fire at the front.

It is difficult to imagine that the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq would have been conducted in the ways they were (and still are) if a large-scale draft had been in effect in America since 2001.

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