I don’t get your point, why doesn’t the peacetime selective service act of 1940 count?
In your view do we declare war on nations that we are not at war with, to give us the couple of years lead time needed to build up our military, or do you think the war breaks out and within days we have a million more new troops created out of thin air?
“why doesn’t the peacetime selective service act of 1940 count?”
The only thing that it counts for is to demonstrate with blood and treasure that two wrongs is more than doubly not right.