Does More War Require a Draft?

The Bush administration is forcing 3,500 Marines, who had served their country and had returned to private life, to go back into military service as a way to fill the ranks thinned by the long war in Iraq. Now, with neoconservatives salivating about waging wars against other Middle East adversaries, the question -- posed in this guest essay by political analyst Brent Budowsky -- is whether some form of military draft is just around the corner for young Americans. August 24, 2006

Link Here

The Cult of the Offensive

U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appear to be in denial about strategic disasters they have encountered in Iraq and Lebanon, respectively. In this guest essay, Ivan Eland looks at what lessons the two reversals hold for the future. August 24, 2006

Link Here