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.
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Go woke, go draft.
Will illegal aliens be drafted? Just asking for a friend.
It’s a War College think piece drafted by a Stident. Has nothing to do with planning for anything.
“No involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime “
And no American wants to turn over their kids to a military infested with communist leaders, woke racists, lesbian officers, trannies etc to fight boutique wars when America is rotting internally.
For Joe’s and Barry’s war?
Incompetence, anti Americans, stollen election, no elected position to call for anything
There’ll be several divisions of trannies. Watch for it, and for drag shows every evening at enlisted and officer’s clubs.
Uncle Sam’s Critical Race Theory army is having a tough time of attracting new recruits.
They cut special operators by 3.5% because they could not meet the diversity quota
The occupation government in DC needs War slaves. Think the board members of Raytheon and Lockheed will go on a military pay scale for the duration? Or do only working class dogs have to do their patriotic duty?
The draft will not happen. It would destroy whatever party initiates it. Gen Z does not fight, and they have no patriotism.
It is forbidden by law to only send females to certain mos.
We can set the military pay scale to a blackrock level that actually attracts people to the army. Or is capitalism only useful when it benefits the Wall Street and DC parties?
But they can command an infantry division - see new commander 7th division.
They’d make him a general!
I don’t see it happening. It would be the greatest electoral disaster to ever befall the Democrat party if they did.
Under the old draft laws, immigrants could be drafted if they had been in the country more than 6 months.
No, it won't. The government of this country would effectively collapse in that scenario. The days of drafting people into the military came to a permanent end in this country once it became politically and culturally acceptable to have a government filled with draft dodgers.
I've been having this same silly conversation with Freepers for almost 25 years.
Trannies, minorities, and women only.
White men have been stealing the war dead numbers for decades.
It’s high time we allowed others to die in our place.
I am going to explain, again, that the US Military can not re-institute the draft, de-institute the draft, decide who they accept as a recruit, decide who they will not accept as a recruit or who they will retain and who they will muster out.
That is all Congress.
Since this person is not aware of that, the entire article should not be tossed aside lightly, it should be hurled with great force, at the author's head. Perhaps it will knock some sense into him.
This could get interesting. I wonder if they will draft trannies. Will girls who “identify” as men have to register? Will men who “identify” as women be exempt? Can’t draft crazy, so will they be deemed crazy again? This could solve all our gender confusion issues in about a minute.
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