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The Sole Survivor Policy or United States Department of Defense Directive 1315.15 "Special Separation Policies for Survivorship" describes a set of regulations in the United States military, partially stipulated by law, that are designed to protect members of a family from the draft during peacetime or wartime if they have already lost family members to military service.
The protest against being drafted into the US army during the Vietnam War was a central element of the wider anti-war movement that gained momentum in the 1960s. Many young Americans, especially students, rejected the war as immoral and unnecessary. The draft was perceived as an unjust coercive measure that particularly affected disadvantaged ...
The draft ended in 1918, but the Army designed the modern draft mechanism in 1926 and built it based on military needs, despite an era of pacifism. Working where Congress would not, it gathered a cadre of officers for its nascent Joint Army-Navy Selective Service Committee, most of whom were commissioned based on social standing rather than ...
It was most famously used during the Second World War when more than 10 million men were drafted into the military between 1940 and 1946. Show comments Advertisement
The draft is a hobby horse for Houlahan, an Air Force veteran. She also spearheaded a House bill in 2021 to require women to register with the Selective Service, effectively doubling the draft pool.
Feminists have argued, first, that military conscription is sexist because wars serve the interests of what they view as the patriarchy; second, that the military is a sexist institution and that conscripts are therefore indoctrinated into sexism; and third, that conscription of men normalizes violence by men as socially acceptable.
The claim: Project 2025 proposes military draft for all public school seniors with two-year commitment. A Sept. 16 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims the Heritage Foundation’s ...
During the Iran–Iraq War, male children were drafted into the Basij army where, according to critics of the Iranian government, they "were sent to the front as waves of human shields". [ 169 ] [ 170 ] Other sources have estimated the total number of all Iranian casualties to be in the 200,000–600,000 range.