![]() Today, the cultural chasm that separates military and civilian households is a topic of intense discussion, and in some quarters, serious worry. ![]() In part because the draft brought the terrible specte r of military service into nearly every living room in the country, the anti-war movement of the 1960s and ’70s cut across what we would now call the civilian-military divide. If it isn’t remembered as such anymore, that’s only because it was a political crime in which every major power participated more or less equally - and that nearly every such power abandoned by the dawn of the twenty-first century in response to overwhelming popular dissent.Īlthough smaller than the mass conscriptions that delivered millions of soldiers to the world wars, it was the Vietnam-era draft that ultimately proved too horrific for the American public to long entertain. The draft was one of the great atrocities of the modern era.
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