IMHO, the greatest untold story of the 20th century is the history of the American military, post-Vietnam to the end of the Carter Administration.
Despite the inept leadership under Jimmy Carter, and the social experiments played during that rudderless administration, the effort and leadership displayed by tens of thousands of young officers & non-coms made it work, somehow.
Looking back on my experiences, I keep asking myself, "how did we make this damn thing work?" Our equipment was aged and growing more obsolete by the day, we had shortages of funding for training and maintenance, and the standards for new enlistees were far below that required today.
As I reminisce about the absolutely superb officers & NCOs I worked with every day, I'm reminded of the words of the final scene in "The Bridges of Toko-Ri": "where do these men come from?"
It's only my opinion, but a return to the draft would undo all that was accomplished by all of those fine soldiers.
You, like me, must have had a VOLAR rug, VOLAR bedspread and VOLAR rug in our VOLAR barracks.
The VOLAR beer machine in the day room didn't last long.
It's not that I disagree with you, per se, it's just that I don't understand your point at all.
How would a draft "undo?"
The fact that it took a knucklehead like Jimmy Carter to restore registration after Richard Nixon (arguably the most competent President at foreign/defense matters of the last half of the 20th century) got rid of it tells you all you need to know about the merits of the idea.