Due in great part to the very unpopular war in Vietnam, in 1973 the US of A suspended conscription and our all-volunteer force appeared. Since it is the U.S. Army branch of the armed forces that has the most personnel and does most of the fighting in wartime, we call it the all-volunteer Army. These days, there is a good deal of talk about how unfair this all-volunteer Army is: only people that want to be in the Army are there, and so not everyone is pulling his (or her) weight. If we had a draft, people that didn’t want to serve in the military would be forced to. I’m old...
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