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Conscription, Registration, and the American Draft Machine

With automatic Selective Service registration set to begin, these books trace the military leadership, emergency-government planning, and force-sourcing debates that explain why the U.S. still maintains a draft apparatus and what it means to expand who it counts.

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6 booksApril 9, 2026
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