The end of conscription in 1973 drove the military to hire cheap foreign contractors
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- Contractors made up half of all deployed personnel in Iraq by 2003 (similarity 0.84)
- Ending the draft drove the military to hire cheap foreign contractors. (similarity 0.83)
- Military contractors donated nearly $200 million to election campaigns since 1990. (similarity 0.81)
- End of the draft shifted military labor onto low-paid foreign contractors. (similarity 0.81)
- Family support became a labor issue to retain volunteer troops (similarity 0.80)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.80)
- Retention pressure after the draft ended drove cushier base comforts and contractor pay (similarity 0.80)
- Troop shortfalls in two wars led to relaxed screening and more sex offenders enlisting (similarity 0.80)
- Constant training rotations mask a permanent U.S. military presence abroad (similarity 0.79)
- Contras were a second-best harassment tool because direct U.S. intervention was impossible post-Vietnam (similarity 0.79)
- Americans displayed pistols while paying Italian base workers (similarity 0.79)
- The Sudan invasion primarily aimed to capture men for the army (similarity 0.79)
- Recruitment pitches weaponized military imagery from video games and blockbusters (similarity 0.79)
- Germany hosted over 260,000 U.S. troops by 1955. (similarity 0.79)
- Conscription stripped households of their primary breadwinners across Egypt. (similarity 0.79)