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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (264535)12/14/2005 12:38:53 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1572702
 
I don't give Rove any credit for our all volunteer military. Perhaps a little for it's misuse and abuse in Iraq, and the misuse and abuse of the reserves serving multiple back to back hitches in Iraq.

"But military conscription became a casualty of the Vietnam War's unpopularity, and the decision not to use the reserves was judged by military planners to have been an error. After the end of U.S. military conscription in 1973, the services were reconfigured into a “total force” including both active and reserve components.2 Reserve units, including elements of the National Guard, were mobilized for the first Persian Gulf War, although no National Guard combat brigades actually took part in the relatively short period of combat."

Rove was still dodging the draft himself at the time the all volunteer military was conceived.
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