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?
Yeah, but Vietnam was a pinnacle of sorts, and Iran started pushing really hard and fast as launch day approached…
Pinnacle in what way?
Draftee casualties in a US proxy war.
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.
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.