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• The draft and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: "The Russian invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating the risks of unrealistic over-reliance on the will to fight of a conscript army, and the way that the perceived availability of a bottomless reserve of draftees emboldens war planners and makes military adventurism more likely."
• Congress punts decision on draft registration into 2022 or 2023
• What's happening with women and Selective Service? (PDF)
• Support the Selective Service Repeal Act (H.R. 2509 / S. 1139) (PDF; phone script; e-mail form)
• Appeal for a full and fair Congressional hearing on Selective Service
• What do feminists say about the draft and draft registration?
• Draft registration compliance, noncompliance, and enforcement
• State laws on Selective Service registration and drivers' licenses
• My testimony to the National Commission on Military Service

FOIA requests about the draft and draft registration

• My FOIA requests to the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS), 2017-2020:
  • My FOIA requests to the NCMNPS and responses other than records of specific meetings and events
  • Public comments submitted to the NCMNPS (including comments not counted by the NCMNPS)
  • NCMNPS public events and activities in 2017 and 2018
  • NCMNPS public events and activities in 2019 and 2020
  • General information and background about the NCMNPS
  • Other articles and commentary about the NCMNPS
• My FOIA requests to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records of the NCMNPS transferred to NARA:
  • Lawsuit (Hasbrouck v. NARA) for preservation and release of NCMNPS records
  • Why I’m suing the National Archives to preserve and make public the records of the NCMNPS
    
  • Closed-door NCMNPS meetings, deliberations, and decisions (withheld by the NCMNPS; released by NARA after the NCMNPS was disbanded)
  • NCMNPS public activities and meetings with Congress and outside entities
• My FOIA requests to the Selective Service System (SSS):
  
  • SSS local, state, and national draft boards, appeal boards, and registrars (requested 7 December 2020; request denied in its entirety; appealed 9 March 2021; denial overturned on appeal and request partially granted 19 March 2021
  • Contingency plans for a general draft (RIPS) or a draft of health care workers (HCPDS) (requested 21 December 2021, response 12 January 2022; note that these contingency plans are inconsistent with some provisions of current and proposed SSS regulations, but the SSS claims to have no other draft regulations that would reocncile these differences)
• Other FOIA requests to the Selective Service System (SSS):
  • SSS contingency plans for a general draft (31 January 2017, requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
  • SSS standard operating procedures for a draft lottery (September 2012; requested by TheBlackVault.com)
  • SSS Registrant Inquiries Manual for registration records (looseleaf, various dates as pages were updated; released 2014; requested by TheBlackVault.com)
  • SSS Transition briefing for the incoming Biden Administration (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
  • SSS records about women, the draft, and draft registration (25 March 2019, requested by GovernmentAttic.org; includes additonal details of SSS contingency plans and budgets and records of Obama Administration White House inter-agency meetings on expanding draft registration to women)
  • SSS Directives, 1999, 2005, 2014 (includes SSS state legislative lobbying programs; requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
  • SSS “Call and Deliver” and induction exercise procedures and reports (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
  • Memoranda Of Understanding and Memoranda Of Agreement between the SSS and the Department of Defense (DoD), 1997, 2003, 2011 (requested by GovernmentAttic.org; note that any agreements between the SSS and the Department of Justice were also requested, but none were found)
  • SSS Memoranda Of Understanding and policies and procedures related to Alternative Service Workers (ASWs) and Conscientious Objectors, 2009 (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
  • SSS presentation to Conscientious Objector/Peace Church communities relating to the Alternative Service Program, 2009 (requested by GovernmentAttic.org)
• More about the Selective Service System and what it does

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