US to Implement Automatic Military Draft Registration for Men by December Under a New Defense Law

The Selective Service System will begin automatically registering eligible men for the military draft by December under the National Defense Authorization Act.No draft is currently planned during the Iran war although the White House noted that Donald Trump maintains all options for national defense.The administrative shift from manual self-registration to automatic enrollment using federal data aims to improve compliance which fell to 81 percent recently.Failure to register with the agency remains a felony punishable by heavy fines and prison sentences while also barring access to federal aid and citizenship.
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