Decisions made years earlier made going to war in any significant way impossible without Guard and Reserve participation. But I can't imagine anyone postulated the situation we face today: We don't seem very anxious to bring back the draft and we can't get enough volunteers for a war that is not universally popular,

Charles Krohn

Participation War

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The war we have now is not the war we started off with. It's much more serious.

— Charles Krohn

This is not a trend we are seeing at Hopkins, in fact our alumni participation has actually increased over the past three years.

— Charles Phlegar

Army recruiting is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Army,

— Charles Krohn

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

— Noam Chomsky

AmericanBeenCivil

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

— Charles Sumner