[arthurus]

A rational draft hat would preclude all the fears of being drafted would be a universal MALE draft to be automatic at age 18 or 17 if a high school graduate for 6 months of basic and infantry training with no assignment to actual duty. At the end of the 6 months the trainees would not be allowed to enlist in the regular military for a further 6 months. With that system the draft for actual service would not be necessary. The main resistance to the draft is young men who fear being shot at or who fear putting their college on hold and others getting an earlier start at careers. The universal training ends the fear-of-the-unknown factor. It is something all have experienced and it is not scary any more. If the nation is under attack there will be no lack of volunteers. And, we will have a much more mature, patriotic, responsible population of young men. No, women should not be drafted and should not be trained in battlefield arts unless there is a real prospect of massive invasion.

[laplata]

“If the nation is under attack there will be no lack of volunteers”.

I see your points but adamantly disagree with this one. Only about half would volunteer to help the country.

[nopardons]

Oh...so you want MS 13 members, girls who think they are boys, boys who imagine that they are girls, but are still boys in EVERY single way, just regular gangbangers, and extreme Muslims to be drafted, for a short period of time AND the over protected, over coddled, social justice, Antifas, and babies still, at 17/18 too?

Today's military is a far cry from what it once was and so is boot camp!

[wardaddy]

Shit average kid today outside red zone parentage will think we deserve it

This ain’t 1941 or 1861 etc