“””””Look at Vietnam. The government was able to conscript 2 million soldiers for the war.””””””
The draft didn’t change much for the Vietnam war. According to the Selective Service System, from 1954 through 1963 (peacetime) they drafted 1,327,343 men for military service, from 1964 through 1973, they drafted 1,840,650 men.
I give you McNamara's Morons
Careful. Hidden behind those numbers is that millions of young men volunteered before they were drafted, which was the intent of issuing individuals a draft number months before they were to be drafted.