What is this recurring connection between big missiles sending men to the moon and the military industrial complex sending expeditionary forces overseas?
What is this recurring connection between big missiles sending men to the moon and the military industrial complex sending expeditionary forces overseas?
Vietnam wasn’t a proxy war for the US, it was a proxy war for Russia.
There were orders of magnitude MORE draftee causalities for the US in WWII than Viet Nam.
There were orders of magnitude MORE draftee protests in the US for Vietnam than WWII. Vietnam was the last conscription conflict for the US, even through today.
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In percentages or raw numbers?
I just went down a mini rabbit hole.
WW2: 10 million drafted, 16 million in the service. 400,000 casualties overall. I couldn’t find anything that split casualty figures by volunteer/drafted status.
Vietnam: 1.9 million conscripted. About 17,000 casualties among the drafted.