Selective Service Website Falters Over #WWIII Draft Fears
- Searches for ‘draft age’ spike after U.S. kills Iran general
- U.S. has maintained an all-volunteer military since 1973
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Concerns that Washington may revive the draft to fight a new war in the Middle East spiked after the U.S. killed a top Iranian military leader in a drone strike, taking down the Selective Service System website.
Hashtags such as #WWIII, #WorldWarThree and #WorldWarThreeDraft all trended on Twitter after the U.S. took out Iran’s Qassem Soleimani and announced that it was sending about 2,800 additional troops to the region -- a sudden and dramatic increase in tensions.