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Conscientious objectionConscription by country v · conscription, or mandatory service in the military, also known as a "draft". A dispute can become a crisis when submission to military service becomes highly controversial and popular revolt ensues. From the point of view of military officials, the crisis is one of supply; where they may claim to lack enough troops to accomplish a military objective, and have, to some degree, lost control of their political ability to enforce existing conscription law. When conscripted soldiers are sent to foreign wars that do not directly affect the security of the nation, or under pretexts and contexts that are otherwise controversial, conscription has historically been highly politically contentious within democracies.
There were a number of conscription crises in history.
- The Revolt in the Vendee involved an early case of a conscription crisis in 1793 as the revolutionary government sought to conscript portions of local communities for the Revolutionary Wars. Similar events occurred in Brittany.
- The New York Draft Riots of 1863 represented protests in response to President Abraham Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription to draft men to fight in the ongoing Civil War.
- The Tragic Week (Catalonia) of 1909 was a series of confrontations between the Spanish army and the working classes of Catalonia (Spain), caused by the calling-up of reserve troops to be sent as reinforcements to the Second Rif War in Morocco.
- The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I.
- In the Conscription Crisis of 1918, Britain tried to impose a conscription on Ireland, leading to a conscription crisis and to increased support for Sinn Féin.
- Other conscription crises during World War I happened in Newfoundland, Australia and New Zealand
- The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War II.
- Protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s to a large degree dealt with the issue of conscription, particularly in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Decades later, the then popular book "IV-F" that centered on easily faked ways to be held medically unqualified for military service without any real incapacitation remains in college libraries as a reminder of how systemic resistance to the draft then was.
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