{"id":70512,"date":"2026-03-31T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/chatter-and-fear-about-us-military-draft-emerge-as-trumps-iran-war-drags-on\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:55:35","slug":"chatter-and-fear-about-us-military-draft-emerge-as-trumps-iran-war-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/chatter-and-fear-about-us-military-draft-emerge-as-trumps-iran-war-drags-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatter and fear about US military draft emerge as Trump\u2019s Iran war drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the US is almost certainly not going to have a draft, media commentary and online anxiety have surfaced<\/p>\n<p>The United States is almost certainly not going to have a military draft to fight Iran. That hasn\u2019t stopped the chatter, and anxiety, across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Donald Trump has ordered a number of marines and army paratroopers to head to the Middle East, gesturing toward a possible ground war to reopen the strait of Hormuz or secure nuclear weapons material. The provocative military activity has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/30\/how-could-us-forcibly-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-iran-what-are-the-risks\">speculative conversation<\/a> about what it would take to invade a country twice the population and three times the territory of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/31\/us-military-draft-fears-trump-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the US is almost certainly not going to have a draft, media commentary and online anxiety have surfaced The United States is almost certainly not going to have a military draft to fight Iran. That hasn\u2019t stopped the chatter, and anxiety, across the country. In recent weeks, Donald Trump has ordered a number of &#8230; <a title=\"Chatter and fear about US military draft emerge as Trump\u2019s Iran war drags on\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/chatter-and-fear-about-us-military-draft-emerge-as-trumps-iran-war-drags-on\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chatter and fear about US military draft emerge as Trump\u2019s Iran war drags on\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}