This is one reason why the left wants to reinstate the draft, so that it can prevent America from fighting wars. Of course, the left is not against fighting wars if is only against fighting wars against leftists. But the left believes that reinstating the draft will make wars more unpopular and I believe that is also the motivation behind their push to register women.
Since the elimination of the draft in the wake of the Vietnam War, technology has come to the rescue of our Armed Forces. We no longer will be fighting world wars with millions of troops involved in multiple theaters as we experienced in World War II and to some degree in World War I. Now wars will be fought with computers, lasers, satellites, drones, EMTs and, God forbid, thermonuclear weapons. We need technicians more than we need grunts.
Right now we have thousands of troops along the border of North Korea who are a strategic liability acting as a tripwire. They are effective only because an attack against them will bring in the United States but one must ask why do we have to be the bait? We see this same tripwire effect in place along the eastern border of NATO and especially in Turkey. Increasingly, we are playing tripwire games in the South China Sea with China. In many of our treaty arrangements around the world we have actually made ourselves hostage to our client allies who have the option of bringing the United States into war without our approval and certainly not necessarily in our national interests.
All of this is been obvious, I've written about all of this for some time including the futility of the Iraq war, Donald Trump is not an original thinker and did not think any of this up.
