Selective Conscientious Objection: Accommodating Conscience And Security

Originally published in 1989. Demographic trends indicate that, if the size of America's military forces is to be maintained through the 1990s, a larger proportion of the declining number of eligible young men and women must be recruited and retained. Some experts have suggested that it may be necessary to return to conscription in order to achiev

Michael F. Noone, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America He retired as a Colonel after twenty years' service in the U.S. Air Force as a judge advocate. His publications include "Military Social Science Research in Law" (forthcoming, Armed Forces and Society); ''Rendering Unto Caesar: Legal Responses to Religious Nonconformity in the Armed Forces," St. Mary's Law Journal, 18 (1987).