During the Viet war..."draft" meant forcing men into the military. Draft=Conscription.
Conscription CAN also occur during peacetime.
I'm not an American, but my understanding was the US can NOT have a peacetime draft due to something in the Constitution. Knowledgable Americans,please augment this.
To keep the numbers up, so when the time comes to deploy..they can deploy.
The draft started...."The Government instituted the Nations first peacetime draft in September of 1940 and began to prepare troops for combat." got this from the web. -----------Actually, if we are referring to the United States, the first actual Draft was used by the North in the Civil War. It was highly unpopular, as it was very unfairly conducted.
The US Civil War & Vietnam War experienced draft riots. These were physical violent protests against the military draft (conscription).
transformed peacetime industries into war industries
Word War II
The draft was ended at the end of th eVietnam war, because the peacetime army got the manpower it needed from volunteer enlistment.
Yes, until the end of the Viet War, then it went away.
I'm not an American, but my understanding was the US can NOT have a peacetime draft due to something in the Constitution. Knowledgable Americans,please augment this.
As soon as they received their draft notice in the mail.
The draft in the US for World War II began in September 1940 with the Selective Training and Service Act. The first peacetime draft in American history, it was later expanded after the US entered the war in 1941.
Transformed peacetime industries into war industries
Despite being officially neutral, after 1940 the US begain to increase its spending on defense and passed the first peacetime military draft
It is peacetime i wish all the time was peacetime.
Draft
Before America actually entered WWII, it manufactured arms and munitions and supplied them to England and its allies. Later, it instituted a peacetime draft.
Peacetime