We need to restart the draft here in the United States.
Convince me otherwise.
If they do it will be the women who fight the war.
“We need to restart the draft here in the United States.
Convince me otherwise.”
Interesting that we don’t hear anything along those lines, or anything else about building up our military, in the US. Perhaps our needs are met with the recent inclusion of drag queens?
2) You can't have mandatory service for all and have it be for longer than that without having a massively overstaffed military.
3) Tons of them are going to be physically/mentally/emotionally unsuited to serve, and be damned dangerous to anyone around them.
4) The massive degradation in troop quality is going to discourage many who currently volunteer to serve from making it a career. They'll just get the hell out rather than put up with all the numbskulls and problems they'd create. You'll lose a lot of good NCO's and officers. That would degrade our combat effectiveness significantly.
5) Rather than imparting military virtues to civilians, the flood of crappy recruits and very high turnover inherent in 12 month contracts will be bringing civilian lack of virtues to the military.
If this corrupted country came for my boys?
Screw them.
Why? Because it worked so well during Vietnam?
We do. Required military service used to be a critical part of the maturation of the average American male, and an introduction to reality.
All volunteer military means further division in the U.S. with those who have served opposite those who take.
I'm retired military and the quality of most draft-age males is such that a draft today would be a disaster. There's a big difference between young males of the 50s and 60s vs today. Most males today would never pass a basic physical or mental evaluation.
Only 30% of Americans eligible for the draft are physically qualified. The other 70% are obese, drug users, or have criminal records.