Posted on 10/01/2023 5:54:10 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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 mises.org ...
There are too many tasks in the military that rely on conscientious individuals paying full attention. It’s a machine and having one person shrug will break it. Having thousands of conscripts will break it in multiple places for years.
“ move toward partial conscription.”
In other words, no kids from the elite families.
“ move toward partial conscription.”
In other words, no kids from the elite families.
Seeing all young American women getting their draft notices and their hysteria in response will be a real hoot.
“I can’t wear those kinds of clothes.”
“You are sending me to what foreign country to fight?”
So is this being enforced?
“All undocumented males 18 through 25 years of age, other than those admitted on non-immigrant visas, must register, whether or not they have a green card.”
https://www.sss.gov/faq/#who-needs-to-register
If nothing else, it would be a good way to identify, account for, and track all these “military aged males” sneaking in.
Banker's (aka, Banksters) decide. ALL wars are bankster wars. Generally, Banksters fund both sides in every war.
Take down the banks/banksters (they are going down) and the draft will never come back.
I doubt it’s enforced, but that’s pure speculation. I hope it is for accountability as you stated.
I see millions upon millions of military-aged men crossing the border from all parts of the world (that would take care of the diversity issue the military is so concerned about).
They should be drafted right there at the border and sent straight to the Ukraine.
Any politician like Pence who says that should be sent straight to the front line and made to stay there until the war is over.
And, his family should be immediately subjected to the draft.
Oh that’s right! He’s A-OK with YOUR sons and daughters coming home in body bags, not his own.
Draft != war. And the whole “bankster” thing is, quite frankly, liberal strawman BS. Get smarter.
I don’t think so either - this generation is not military material - that and there would be the REAL possibility of wide-spread fragging.
If the military can’t solve its recruitment and retention problems, how do you staff the military? National security issue.
People still register for the draft under the Selective Service Act.
They say that labor camps are fine...
To make the young folk toe the line...
The biggest barrier is that it’s just a political 3rd rail. Nobody who has any desire to be re-elected is voting for it. All the liberals will turn against them. And a good chunk of conservatives depending on what the current hot conflict is.
(Any politician like Pence who says that should be sent straight to the front line and made to stay there until the war is over.
And, his family should be immediately subjected to the draft.)
Works for me.
Anyone who doesn’t think an all out war would require a draft, has no sense of reality.
I don’t care if the military expelled all gays or trannies and met all peacetime recruiting goals, a draft would be required.
Me thinks those acting outraged by the possibility, are showing their true colors.
Never have we carried out a long term full scale conflict, without a draft.
Same as any other job: increase pay and benefits.
Forcing teens to register for Selective Service was probably the dumbest moment of Reagan’s presidency. It’s a complete waste of time, because the draft will forever be political suicide.
All natural born kids are registered. Some states make it part of getting driver’s licenses, etc.
However if illegals are not being registered, if they were then to institute the draft, they will send the natural born kids to die and be replaced in society with the illegals! Replacement theory on speed!
Furthermore, IF they are registering illegals, what kind of I.D. are they accepting???
NO ONE SEEMS TO TALK ABOUT THIS!
I still have my draft card. 44-10-46-289.
Biden will decree it. Congress is only good now for appropriations and impeachment. All other powers have been ceded to the executive branch and agencies including the military since LBJs days.
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