[Reeses]

But stopping H1-B visas, offshoring, and hiring of non-American born engineers all at the same time because war breaks out will accomplish something. Suddenly the American born male engineer becomes very important again. They will invent many new things because of the huge war time investments made in technology, and after the war America will ride another big technological wave for the next 20 years.

[Arjun]

fight a War every 20 years? with whom? The jobs may move from the country you are at War with to another country in the vicinity we are not at war with.

[Iris7]

I do not believe that a Taiwan Straits war would bring about the changes you envision. Any real inconvenience here in the States will cause an absolute demand by the Democrats, Big Media, school teachers, and other academics for immediate withdrawal. If the Chinese nuke a few cities the demands for withdrawal will become overwhelming.

A WWII response is not going to happen again. Besides, the WWII response was nothing at all like the current myth portrays it. This is an interesting subject and taboo with the WWII generation. Did you know that the USA very nearly ran out of men willing to fight? This was a major military issue in 1944 - 45. You couldn't get anyone worth a darn into the Army combat units.

My own belief is that the Marines did OK with the run of draftees during this period and the Army did not for political reasons. Effective training for such human material is rather strict and has a pretty fair death rate. The Marines used the brig, a remarkable experience in those days. You would not believe the details.