Well I’d say the concept of “do not comply” will be well underway when and if the governments of the western-style nations institute a draft. Who on earth would fight in a war these days? For what reason? In WW2 a disproportionate number of people from Newfoundland and Quebec enlisted mostly because it gave them a salary when jobs were hard to find in these impoverished parts of the country at the time. Is that the plan? I do not know. I just know that a draft will not go over well at all with the mooing herds.
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Drafts have long-lasting effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkJH6sapQMA
James Taylor was 21 y/o (b. March 12th, 1948) the night of that first big televised draft. He already had a mental-health draft exemption, *and* his birthday turned out 'safe' that night (#300).
But a lot of his friends and contemporaries had no such luck.
Taylor wrote the songs for his breakthrough album, Sweet Baby James immediately following that, "over just a few weeks in December 1969 at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles," after driving out there from MA. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/james-taylor-sweet-baby-james/
The refrain for title track goes like this: "Now the first of December was covered with snow..." (For that generation, the day, December first, would forever be tainted, covered with the pall of seemingly random death-by-government fiat.) "So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston." (It actually snowed real snow that day here in Massachusetts, where he witnessed that broadcast.)
Wouldn't it be fun if someone wrote a book about this, with lots of details about that draft and how it effected men, women, parents, and children? bit.ly/CWS-p