There hasn’t been a draft in the U.S. since the Vietnam War, and it would take an act of Congress to enact one.

If the draft was reinstated, who would be drafted first? Here's what to know about the Selective Service and how a military ...

Congress has tweaked how the government builds its Selective Service rolls, but the shift is about who shows up in federal records, not about pulling anyone into uniform. Any return to compulsory ...