Donald Gets Drafted a six-part series, within the larger "Donald Duck" series, which shared a continuity of Donald serving in the army during World War II. The cartoon also revealed for the first time Donald's middle name – Fauntleroy – seen on his "Order to Report for Induction" form from the film's title screen. Filled with enthusiasm, Donald reports to his local draft board after receiving a draft notice. Along the way, he passes several recruiting posters that romanticize military life. Especially intrigued by one for the Air Force, featuring attractive women and the promise of escorting them around, Donald decides that he
How to Read Donald Duck then-ongoing Iraq War (2003–2011) as an example of where this ideological strategy leads. According to historian Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, "How to Read Donald Duck" was part of a wider change in policy in 1970s Chile. She calls the policy "Roasting the Duck". In context, The Walt Disney Company enjoyed a wide cultural presence in the Chile of the 1960s, partly through educational films such as "Family Planning" ("Planificación Familiar", 1967). The character Donald Duck was particularly prominent in Chile. The Chilean leaders of the 1970s attempted to abolish what they perceived to be emblems of cultural imperialism. The writers