draft dodging
Fleeing military service
Draft dodging is the act of evading compulsory military service.
Methods range from fleeing to another country to obtaining fraudulent medical exemptions.
The term carries judgment—those who oppose conscription might say resisting the draft instead.
Draft dodging became a major issue during the Vietnam War, when thousands of Americans relocated to Canada.
- selective serviceCompulsory military enrollment system
- fleeingRapid escape from danger
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- amnestyGroup pardon from authorities
- exemptionRelease from requirement
Vietnam War · desertion · conscientious objection · Canada · Muhammad Ali · war resisters · civil disobedience · falsification · self-harm · bribery · deferment · asylum seeking · anti-war movement · military tribunal · extradition · protest · war · activism
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- Sixtieshippies, Beatles, Woodstock, Vietnam War, JFK
- 70s Activismantiwar movement, Black Power, boycotts, Cesar Chavez, consciousness raising
- Draft Evasionconscientious objector, conscientious objection, deferment, desertion, exemption
- Military Desertiondeserter, desertion, AWOL, absconding, absconders
- military offensesdesertion, insubordination, mutiny, AWOL, absence without leave
draft dodgingenlisting
Formally joining a force
volunteering · voluntary enlistment · answering the call · reporting for duty · military enlistment
draft dodgingmilitary service
Duty in armed forces
civic duty · national service · wartime service · patriotic duty · self-sacrifice