Children as young as 4 and 5 were dragooned or tricked into these government-run schools.

Nor was I amused by the dragooning of theatergoers brought onstage to witness atrocities or, at another point, to be turned, without warning, into slaves at an auction.

The premise has the boys, the worst soldiers imaginable, coping with being dragooned into the U.S.

An unassuming, enlightened type, he has been dragooned into choosing a bride only because his brawnier and better-loved brother, Prince Charming, is presumed dead after disappearing at war.

The grotesqueness of the sacrifice seems compounded for the Africans dragooned into fighting somebody else’s war.