By Edward Hasbrouck; reprinted with permission by author; also available here: https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002751.html
Fewer young Americans are willing to fight the government’s wars.
[Also published on Antiwar.com. Portions of this article were first published by Responsible Statecraft and are reprinted by permission.]
Of men in the U.S. who turned 18 in 2023, fewer than 40% signed up for the draft – down from more than 60% in 2020 before the start of the war in Ukraine.
This eye-popping and previously undisclosed admission, as well as other revelations equally damning to plans to increase readiness to activate a draft, was included in documents released recently by the Selective Service System (SSS) in response to a Freedom Of Information Act request.