“The draft is back, and this time it is more unfair than ever. The Pentagon’s lingo for it is a ‘stop-loss order,’ but it is a form of conscription that requires soldiers to serve longer than the tours of duty to which they have committed. The Pentagon is stooping to this tactic as the only way to fill its units being deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the military does not quickly find a better way to meet its personnel needs, the occupation of Iraq could be as damaging to morale and retention rates in the ‘volunteer army’ as the Vietnam War was in the conscription Army.”