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It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. The notion was you defer the people who are studying things and developing techniques and technologies that will give the United States privacy,

which meant deferring people who studied science and engineering, which turned into deferring people who went to engineering, which turned in to deferring people who went to college,

which turned in by the time we get to Vietnam to an extremely class-based system,

where those people who are able to go to college for whatever reasons and often economic circumstances were critical,

I had a much greater, they were deferred unless they were going into the officer corps. One day all of the facts in about 30 years time will be published.

When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with infinity, and when it is near to completion,

people talk about intervention.

You don't get freedom.

You don't get freedom, peacefully.

Freedom is never safeguarded peacefully.

Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach. Hello and welcome to Angry Planet, I'm Matthew Gault.

The United States military is an all-volunteer force and has been since 1973. The people who fought both Gulf Wars and the war in

Afghanistan asked to join up. They had as many reasons as there are troops, but

not one was compelled by the government.

Today we're talking to Beth Bailey, distinguished professor at Kansas University,

and the author of America's Army, making the all-volunteer force.

We're going to talk about the history of the draft

and what came after.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Happy to be here. To start at the very beginning, which is usually what we like to do with the show, how old is the concept

of the draft going all the way back as far as you can? Nobody would have called it the draft, but there were conscripted troops going back as far as there's any kind of recorded history.

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