Posted on 10/19/2023 5:23:48 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The most recent edition of the US Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the US military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average American citizen is a subsection entitled “Casualties, Replacements, and Reconstitutions” which, to cut right to the chase, directly states, “Large-scale combat operations troop requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the 1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial conscription.”
An Industrial War of Attrition Would Require Vast Numbers of Troops
The context for this supposed need to reinstate conscription is the estimate that were the US to enter into a large-scale conflict, every day it would likely suffer thirty-six hundred casualties and require eight hundred replacements, again per day. The report notes that over the course of twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US suffered fifty thousand casualties, a number which would likely be reached in merely two weeks of large-scale intensive combat.
The military is already facing an enormous recruiting shortfall. Last year the army alone fell short of its goal by fifteen thousand soldiers and is on track to be short an additional twenty thousand this year. On top of that, the report notes that the Individual Ready Reserve, which is composed of former service personnel who do not actively train and drill but may be called back into active service in the event they are needed, has dropped from seven hundred thousand in 1973 to seventy-six thousand now.
(Excerpt) Read more at activistpost.com ...
For quite some time. At least since 2009.
Liberalism: Whatever isn’t prohibited is mandatory.
You WILL be a homosexual, soldier!
Think of the military as a gun store with urban sale pricing.
No thanks, we’ll form our own.
I will be interested in seeing the list of who will be eligible for deferments.
So, women are draftable now. Are they going to mandate abortions for draft age women?
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, except for when it’s not in a declared war with Eastasia.
“Gimme an F!”
Let’s not fix why people are no longer volunteering, the “elite” tyrants would rather force people to die for their personal. gains and depraved moral causes.
It’s not going to happen. This kind of idiocy has been brought up repeatedly for as long as I’ve been on FR.
Liberals see the military as a social program. It also solves the problem of unemployed youth and keeps them from rioting.
Code pink? Code pink? Cindy Sheehan? All the other lefty agitator,where are they now? Are they still fighting for the cause and the media ignore them? Or were they all the publicity whores we all thought the were.
Klinger would be a General in today’s Army.
I agree with a lot of what he said, but the assumption that the Atlantic and Pacific are the only routes of attack completely disregards the fact that our southern border is both porous and peopled by cartels with guns, who smuggle Middle Easterners across at will.
You got that right.
ARMY! "Be All You Can Be".
There might be some chatter of using unemployed youth in this fashion, but you won’t find many solid liberals who sell enlistment as a good idea.
Pushing draft now? You’d just tie up matters in court for a decade as people suggest they have ‘rights’ not to enlist/fight. Whole different society than 1940s/1950s/1960s.
National Guard units will tell you that they have vacancy problems and talking to 18-year-olds isn’t working.
If we get into a large conflict (China) the draft will most certainly happen and women will be drafted too. But I doubt the drafted women will be put into combat MOSes.
The answer, which is sure to come: Robot armies.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.