The Coming Draft: The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America. Questo articolo non è disponibile.The Coming Draft: The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America

A retired Marine officer and author of Take Back the Right provides a compelling argument against the return of a draft, despite the military's failure to meet recruitment goals, contending that conscription is out of line with the intent of America's founders and that to reinstate the draft without reforms would be morally and constitutionally wrong. 25,000 first printing.

The Coming Draft is a passionate and devastating polemic that at once challenges the right's definition of patriotic service and the left's near abandonment of the subject. Outspoken and wryly furious, Philip Gold's book will, with luck, bring reforms as numerous as the hackles it will raise. --Caleb Carr, bestselling author and historian

In a country on the verge of perpetual war, it takes an ex-marine and political scholar to think about the consequences to both the nation and the military . . . setting the table for what is sure to become the great national debate of this and the next decade. --Ronald J. Glasser, M.D., author of 365 Days

The Coming Draft examines two equally crazy ideas: that a democratic state has the right to tear its citizens from their homes and send them to war, and that those citizens have the right to refuse. The relationship between citizenship and service in our country is broken. Philip Gold has written a brilliant account of how this happened, what it means, and how we can fix it. Read this excellent book as a warning-its issues will matter again greatly and maybe sooner than we think. --Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer