We will never see a draft in this country again; when the architects of the war in Vietnam later admitted countless mistakes in the manner in which that war was carried out and still never spent a day in prison, then the moral high ground was lost forever. Millions of people died without any formal declaration of war, and nobody was prosecuted.
How could they ever convince anyone they should show up when called? Unless the US was actually under attack on its own soil (within the 50 states themselves, not embassies), nobody’s coming to fight for our 1%ers.
Oh, it's coming. The US Army will only meet 50% of it's recruiting requirement this year.
“...when the architects of the war in Vietnam later admitted countless mistakes...”
The McNamara documentary called the fog of War is a shameful exposé/admission.
The War Of Numbers was a good read on ignoring good Intel if it doesn’t meet the agenda or when cooking a budget. Tet was completely avoidable if the numbers secured by Intel through a network of trusted regional contact collection efforts were not cooked. The MACV appears to have been suckered into not believing the hard raw.on the ground data. Why? It didn’t support Westmorland strategy of victory through a war of attrition. When “body counts” become an indicator of a successful op and the troops are officially recognized for body counts, the race us on and numbers creep sets in.