[Americanexpat]

I will agree with you about draftees. The point I was trying to make is that if schools and universities win this Supreme Court case and can ban the military from campuses then we will have to resort to the draft. We have too much going on in the world to let the numbers in the military slip too far.

[68skylark]

I respectfully disagree -- I can say with confidence that there isn't going to be a draft in this country, no matter what, not ever.

Back in the 1980's we had an all-volunteer military that was two to three times bigger than we have today. We can go back to that size military on an all-volunteer basis any time we want to. We simply don't want to -- we have far higher standards today (something the MSM doesn't report on, because it doesn't fit their image a soldiers as knuckle-dragging dunces), and the high standards are more important than quantity. A draft army is the ultimate high-quantity approach, and it's the opposite of everything we believe today about how to have the most effective, lethal military.