David Lance Goines resisted getting drafted into the army during the fight against Vietnam. To achieve his aim, he employed a number of strategies. The major one he used was what he learned from Northcote C. Parkinson which was to write a letter to the forces and time their response and when a pattern was established, he would write many more letters.
Goines applied this strategy to escape being drafted into the army and eventually his file was lost.
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