military draft
Forced army service
The military draft is compulsory enrollment for military service, also called conscription.
Governments invoke drafts during wartime or national emergencies when volunteer forces prove insufficient.
He fled to Canada to avoid the draft.
To be drafted is to be selected for mandatory service.
The draft remains controversial, with debates over exemptions, lottery systems, and whether women should be included.
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- registrationFormal recording of participation
- selective serviceCompulsory military enrollment system
- conscientious objectionMoral refusal to fight
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
anti-war movement · Muhammad Ali · induction · mandatory service · training camps · cannon fodder · basic training · boot camp · quota system · reserve forces · medical screening · civil disobedience · eighteen · called up · service · war · Uncle Sam · reporting for duty
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- military serviceactive duty, deployment, tour of duty, combat duty, enlistment
- war lawsEspionage Act, emergency powers, martial law, war powers, sedition laws
- war mobilizationmobilization, troop mobilization, selective service, mobilization orders, war footing
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers
military draftvolunteer enlistment
Freely choosing military service
volunteering · professional army · volunteer army · voluntary enlistment · voluntary service
military draftmilitary discharge
Formal release from service
demobilization · discharge · mustering out · honorable discharge · exemption
military draftdraft exemption
Release from military conscription
deferment · military exemption · pacifism · draft evasion · draft dodging