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1. Conscription -- Draft
   Conscription is a perfect example of a teacher's worst nightmare. You give students the tools necessary to survive and succeed in the outside world...you encourage individual choice...you teach them to think for themselves. Then the government comes along, drafts them, "breaks them down" in boot camp just so they can make them "army strong."
2. Selective Service System -- Draft
   Although the Selective Service System is authorized by the Selective Service Act, some argue the constitutionality of the act, claiming the law violates the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution of the U.S. Constitution by providing for military conscription. Opponents of the law contend that the draft constitutes "involuntary servitude", under the amendment, which states:
3. Conscientious Objectors -- Militarys
   In 1962 the Department of Defense issued a directive that conscientious objectors should be discharged from the military or assigned to non-combat duties, according to their belief. (DOD Directive 1300.6) This policy is based on the conscription law, and while COs have been discharged since that time, the numbers and success rates have varied widely over the years. The process is a lengthy one, usually taking between 6 months and a year, and during that time the CO remains a member of the military and is required to obey all lawful orders. This obviously can, and often does, create awkward and difficult situations for many COs whose claims are pending. There are some protections in military regulations for COs, for example they are to be assigned duties that conflict as little as possible with their CO beliefs, but the military mission is the 1st priority.
4. Conscientious Objectors -- Military Services
   Haggai Matar, Adam Maor, Shimri Tsameret, Matan Kaminer and Noam Bahat - the five conscientious objectors to military service - are getting out of prison tomorrow, after serving a year's sentence, and another year in repeated remands. It is not clear what the army is planning for the day after their release. Will they be required to enlist again? Will they be sent to prison again? Are five youngsters capable of carrying on their shoulders the entire objection struggle opposite a strong military establishment that enjoys the support of the consensus? Is it fair to expect it of them?
5. Gettysburg National Military Park -- Battlefield
   In the late 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, the National Park Service commissioned a leading modernist architect - Richard Neutra - to design a visitor center at Gettysburg National Military Park. Neutra shirked convention and envisioned the building as a "place of cultural interchange" a mid-century memorial to Lincoln that celebrated American values in a global context. The New York Times praised the building as an example of the federal government's new architectural identity. Yet Neutra's modernist statement, set upon a premiere historic site, failed to resonate with the public. By the 1970s, the Park Service distanced itself from Neutra's design and his utopian ideologies. The visitor center was declared an "intrusion" on the landscape, an error in judgment that must be erased to restore the battlefield to its "original condition."
6. Military-Industrial Complex -- Dwight Eisenhower
   In the penultimate draft of the address, Eisenhower initially used the term military-industrial-congressional complex, indicating the essential role that U.S. Congress plays in propagating the military industry. But, it is said, that the president chose to strike the word congressional in order to avoid offending members of the legislative branch of the federal government. The author of the term was Eisenhower's speech-writer Malcolm Moos.
7. Selective Service System -- Military Selective Service Act
   The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency within the Executive Branch of the federal government. Under the Military Selective Service Act, the SSS's mission is twofold: to deliver untrained manpower to the armed forces in time of emergency in accordance with requirements established by the Department of Defense, and to administer an alternative service program for conscientious objectors.
8. Military-Industrial Complex -- United States
   Still another new player in the military-industrial complex field is the Interregional Investment Bank (IIB). It became widely known a year ago when it actively joined in a struggle with Guta Bank for control over the Moscow Helicopter Factory (MHF). The battle was successful, and Yury Andranov, who was close to the bank, became general director of the factory. In addition, the bank owns the assets of a number of shipyards, which mainly produce small- and medium-displacement vessels, such as cutters, corvettes, and patrol boats (frigates). In August, the creation of the Small- and Medium-Tonnage Shipbuilding Association with the participation of the IIB was announced. The Association united shipyards that were wholly or partially controlled by the bank; it is headed by Mikhail Kheifits, former manager of the naval department at Rosvooruzhenie and now an IIB vice-president.
9. Speech Topics -- Information
   Speech and Oral Topics These are some general ideas to use as starting points in trying to identify a topic for speeches or orals. Once you have selected a topic then search for the information in the Library on this topic.
10. Conscription in the U.S. -- United States
    Israel is the only country in the world that practices conscription for women. It is ... also the only country in the world where women's draft resistance exists. The movement of women draft resisters in Israel is constantly on the rise, but no data are available as to its exact extent. The army refrains from making such data known to the public. In October 2002, Brigadier-General Avi Zamir, head of the planning division at the army's manpower department, reported to the Knesset committee on the status of women that the number of women who do not enlist on grounds of conscience is confidential. Data that the New Profile movement has assembled from media items, indicate that every year, 40% of women candidates for conscription do not enlist.

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