U.S. Military Operations Against Iran’s Missile and Nuclear Programs – P.L.111-84; P.L.119-60 – Publication Date: 03/06/2026. On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran. The same day, President Donald J. Trump listed among the operation’s objectives preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, destroying Iran’s missiles, and “[razing] their missile industry to the ground.” Some Members of Congress have questioned the U.S. military operations in Iran given President Trump’s previous comments that, as a result of the June 2025 U.S.-Israeli strikes, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” Other Members have supported the President’s action, citing Iran’s efforts to reconstitute its nuclear program and its ballistic missile capabilities…

See also – DOGE Has the Draft List – How automatic Selective Service registration, government data-mining, and two active wars converge on a single database. What Section 535 Actually Does – Under the new law, the SSS must “identify, locate, and register” every male person residing in the United States between 18 and 26 by aggregating data from other federal agencies—Social Security, IRS, immigration records, whatever else the SSS Director “determines necessary.” This replaces a self-registration system in place since 1980. Under that framework, young men were supposed to sign up voluntarily; most didn’t. Compliance has been abysmal for decades. Bernard Rostker, who ran the SSS from 1979 to 1981, testified in 2019 that the existing database would be “less than useless” for an actual draft. Congress had an obvious alternative: abolish a system that hasn’t worked in 45 years. Instead, it chose to expand the system’s reach and its access to Americans’ personal data. Edward Hasbrouck, the most knowledgeable independent expert on draft registration in the country, put the change in stark terms when the conference bill emerged in December 2025 – this:

“will move the USA closer to activation of a draft, or at least to being able to claim to be ready to activate a draft ‘on demand,’ than at any time in the half century since draft registration was suspended and draft boards were deactivated in 1975.”