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The Vietnam War and the anti-war sentiment it provoked, including protests and distrust of the draft system.
Cold War covert operations that tied U.S. intelligence activity to narcotics trafficking fall into recurring patterns: alliances with anti‑communist proxies who were themselves involved in drug trade,...
Historians distinguish “war” from “military intervention” by reference to scale, intent, duration, parties and political commitment: classic definitions see war as an intentional, widespread armed con...
The December 1, 1969 draft lottery assigned sequence numbers to men born between 1944 and 1950 to determine induction order for 1970, a change meant to reduce perceived bias in the pre‑lottery system ...
Donald Trump did not serve in the U.S. military and received multiple draft classifications and deferments during the Vietnam era—facts that placed his record at odds with many high‑profile contempora...
No American president has been a veteran of the Vietnam War; the current president did not serve in Vietnam, a fact shaped by timing, draft rules and common deferments during the era . Contemporary pr...
American presidents across eras have used deception as a policy tool — from George Washington’s private evasions through the Vietnam, Watergate and post‑9/11 eras to the Trump administration’s prolifi...
The 1969 draft lottery reshaped who served in Vietnam more than how many served: it converted uncertain, uneven local draft practices into a national ordering that altered incentives to volunteer, cha...
Bill Clinton did not receive a medical exemption from the Vietnam War draft; his avoidance of combat service resulted from a sequence of student deferments, changing Selective Service classifications,...
Joe Biden received five student deferments while in college and law school and, after a physical exam on April 5, 1968, was given a Selective Service medical classification of 1‑Y because of a history...