Comment on Can an Swedish style draft work in the US?
AskewLord@piefed.social 2 weeks agohuh, i never knew about the civil defense force, but that makes a lot of sense. Homeland Security was such a cluster fuck of an idea.
Comment on Can an Swedish style draft work in the US?
AskewLord@piefed.social 2 weeks agohuh, i never knew about the civil defense force, but that makes a lot of sense. Homeland Security was such a cluster fuck of an idea.
dhork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My link may have been a bit misleading. We have never had an entity named “civil defense force” but pre-9/11 the same function was filled by a hodgepodge of agencies, which that Wikipedia article discussed. After that they were all folded into the “DHS” trench coat.