So I sort of prove your point - except if I were dragged into it, I might not have adapted to things properly and never accepted my place among my brother Marines as well. A large part of the Marine Corps' success has been the bond between us and I knew, as all my other Marines knew, that the man on either side of me would carry his weight and if I was in trouble, they'd risk their lives to help me. I knew that I was up to that too - and I was wounded while dragging a wounded Marine out of an open rice paddy while a whole bunch of people were shooting at us.
I liked the guys who were drafted and served well in Vietnam - I met a bunch of them in the hospitals while we recovered - but they had a different mental set from those of us in the Marine Corps who volunteered and knew what we were in for.
The military is doomed no matter what, a modern draft will be used to draft women and other elements to reshape the military in a political sense.
An all volunteer military doesn’t work either, it is too weak and tiny to do much, our dealings with China and hostile alliances will become based on the cold fact that we can’t meet and defeat them on the battlefield, and the social engineering and clamor for ever increasing pay, benefits, and quality of life issues, will eventually turn our military into merely another federal job, either unionized, or the same as unionized.
In time our military will be half female, liberal, isolated from citizens and they will all be career people, and patriotism and sacrifice will be replaced by the usual government employee demands for more goodies and an easier life that is less risky and less demanding, and that is absolutely about social equality and job fairness.
The military will eventually become hostile to the people and a democratic voting block.