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10 Armed Forces & Soc'y 5 (1983-1984)

handle is hein.journals/amdfcsad10 and id is 1 raw text is: Selective Service Registration: Success or Failure? HERBERT C. PUSCHECK Headquarters, U.S. Army Readiness and Development Command In his State of the Union Address on 23 January 1980 President Carter called for reinstating draft registration; it had been suspended by President Ford in April 1975 and later terminated. Carter's decision was part of a measured response to the Soviet in- vasion of Afghanistan the month before. Other steps included a grain embargo and suspending U.S. participation in the Olympic Games scheduled for Moscow later that year. Of these three ac- tions, only Selective Service registration related directly to military preparedness. It would reduce the time needed to conscript men into the military. This article reviews recent developments pertaining to Selec- tive Service registration and discusses the major arguments for and against peacetime registration. The purpose is to help assess whether registration has been successful, whether more effort should be com- mitted to improve compliance, or whether the program should be considered a failure and, perhaps, terminated or replaced. Background The president's call for registration was coupled with a deci- sion, long expected, to revitalize Selective Service, which had been perceived by many to be an anachronism. For two years after ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY, Vol. 10 No. 1, Fall 1983 5-25 ©1983 by the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 1983 Fal 5 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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