Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Draft-age males with high lottery number now have the blessings of the director of the Selective Service System to strategically plan their service liabilities...
...Draft director Curtis W. Tarr established a policy yesterday permitting men to drop certain deferments at will...
...guns lined up behind the plan. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced that he had ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and Laird's top manpower assistant, Roger T. Kelley, spent 90 minutes briefing newsmen on the program...
...make the plan work, Westmoreland said, the current rate of recruitment and re-enlistment must be at least douled and possibly tripled. This will be difficult without the threat of the draft as an inducement to potential volunteers. At present, the Army figures that only about 40% of its volunteers would have enlisted if they had not feared that they would be drafted anyway...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...