Editing Draft evasion (section)

====By adhering to the law====
[[File:U.S. draft lottery.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|alt=Important looking man drawing a capsule from a bowl|US Secretary of War [[Newton D. Baker|Newton Baker]] drawing the first number in the [[World War I]] draft lottery, 1917]]
* Claiming [[conscientious objector]] status on the basis of sincerely held religious or ethical beliefs.<ref name=Gitlin>[[Todd Gitlin|Gitlin, Todd]] (1993, orig. 1987). ''[[The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage]]''.  New York: Bantam, rev. ed., pp.&nbsp;291–292 (beginning of "Varieties of Antiwar Experience" section).  {{ISBN|978-0-553-37212-0}}.</ref><ref>[[Staughton Lynd|Lynd, Staughton]]; Lynd, Alice, eds. (1995).  ''Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History'', rev. ed.  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, Parts V and VII.  {{ISBN|978-1-57075-010-6}}.</ref>{{refn|name=first|Conscientious objector (CO) status does enable a recipient to avoid military service. However, COs who do not choose to perform non-combatant military service are generally required by their governments to perform civilian alternative service in the public or private sectors – typically conservation, health, or cultural work.<ref>[[Charles Moskos|Moskos, Charles C.]]; Chambers, John Whiteclay, II. "The Secularization of Conscience". In Moskos and Chanbers II, eds., ''The New Conscientious Objection: From Sacred to Secular Resistance''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, p.&nbsp;5.  {{ISBN|978-0-19-507955-5}}.</ref>|group=nb}}
* Claiming a student deferment, when one is in school primarily in order to study and learn.<ref name=Wittmann /><ref>Domínguez, in Gillespie, ed. (1990), p.&nbsp;51.</ref><ref name=Karnow /><ref name=Kusch>[[Frank Kusch|Kusch, Frank]] (2001). ''All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War''. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, pp.&nbsp;70–74.  {{ISBN|978-0-470-85104-3}}.</ref>
* Claiming a medical or psychological problem, if the purported health issue is genuine and serious.<ref name=Christ /><ref name=Wittmann />
* Claiming to be [[homosexuality|homosexual]], when one is truly so and the military excludes homosexuals.<ref>[[Lawrence Baskir|Baskir, Lawrence M.]]; [[William Strauss|Strauss, William A.]] (1987). ''Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, p.&nbsp;45.  {{ISBN|978-0-394-41275-7}}.</ref>
* Claiming economic hardship, if the hardship is genuine and the law recognizes such a claim.<ref>Palmer, Brandon (2013). ''Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937–1945''. Seattle: University of Washington Press, p.&nbsp;113. {{ISBN|978-0-295-99258-7}}.</ref>
* Holding a job in what the government considers to be an essential civilian occupation.<ref name=Christ /><ref name=Wittmann />
* Purchasing exemptions from military service, in nations where such payments are permitted.<ref name=Duxbury>[[Neil Duxbury|Duxbury, Neil]] (2002). ''Random Justice: On Lotteries and Legal Decision-Making''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.&nbsp;154–155 (citing 19th century Belgium and France, as well as America during the Civil War). {{ISBN|978-0-19-925353-1}}.</ref>
* Not being chosen in a [[Draft lottery (1969)|draft lottery]], where lotteries determine the order of call to military service;<ref name=Fallows>[[James Fallows|Fallows, James]] (1977). "What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?" In Robbins, Mary Susannah, ed. (2007, orig. 1999). ''Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists''.  London and Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp.&nbsp;159–164. {{ISBN|978-0-7425-5914-1}}.</ref> or not being in a certain age group, where age determines the order of call.<ref name=Christ />
* Not being able to afford armor or other equipment, in polities where conscripts were required to provide their own.<ref name=Christ />