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The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America
Random House
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0891418954
EAN: 9780891418955
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
The draft may be on its way back and both Republicans
and Democrats are offering compelling arguments for its
return. This book tells us why it can't happen again. The Army and National Guard are missing their monthly
recruiting quotas by fifteen to twenty-five percent. The
Marines have missed their recruitment goals for the first
time in ten years. Educational and fitness standards have
dropped. Liberal use of stop-loss orders is growing. Never
has the gap between what we claim to be ready to do
militarily and what we have available to do it been
greater than now, and a crisis is looming. With the neocons in favor of continuing the war on terror
finding the draft more and more an unavoidable option, and
some liberals seeing conscription as an answer to social
inequality, this strange alliance could make the draft
more than a pipe-dream. But according to Gold, a retired Marine officer,
conscription is a bad idea no matter which side of the
political spectrum it comes from. He shows that
conscription has been used in bad faith ever since the
Civil War and is completely out of line with what the
founders of this country meant it to be. Gold argues that
reinstating the draft without sweeping reforms, including
restrictions on the ability of a president to enter into
foreign wars unilaterally, would be wrong both on moral
and constitutional grounds.
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