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All-volunteer force can’t meet Pentagon’s future needs, advocates warn By the Numbers: A look at a potential return to the draft The fifth annual All-Volunteer Force Conference looking at the state of the volunteer force since its inception in 1973 and whether conscription should be reinstated to meet the needs of the modern military came amid likely the most attention the issue has seen in recent years. In February, a petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court challenges the constitutionality of a military draft that doesn’t include women. And testimony in early March by members of ...

All-volunteer force can’t meet Pentagon’s future needs, advocates warn By the Numbers: A look at a potential return to the draft The fifth annual All-Volunteer Force Conference looking at the state of the volunteer force since its inception in 1973 and whether conscription should be reinstated to meet the needs of the modern military came amid likely the most attention the issue has seen in recent years. In February, a petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court challenges the constitutionality of a military draft that doesn’t include women. And testimony in early March by members of ...

Former NSA director, retired top officers ask Supreme Court to declare military draft unconstitutional February 12 First Lt. Elyse Ping Medvigy, a native of Sebastopol, Calif., fire support officer with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Inf. Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Division, conducts a call-for-fire during an artillery shoot south of Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2014. (Staff Sgt. Whitney Houston/Army) The former National Security Agency director and nine prominent retired general and flag officers have signed on to legal brief asking that the U.S...