draft dodgers

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, draft dodgers has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Daily Show (Nov 2025).

Draft evasion or conscription evasion is avoiding a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces. Sometimes draft evasion involves refusing to comply with the military draft laws. Illegal draft evasion is said to have characterized every military conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries, in which at least one party of such conflict has enforced conscription. Such evasion is generally considered to be a criminal offense, and laws against it go back thousands of years.