No, we don’t. If we stopped the military from being so woke, we’d have enough volunteers.
All the Neocons and Democratic politicians need to be drafted and sent to the Russian front.
Leave everybody else alone.
No.
End constant war for questionable purposes. End LGBTP+ political indoctrination for military personnel. The problem will solve itself.
The first order of business is to have a country worth defending. THEN come and have a conversation about how to go about doing that.
Nobody with a brain and/or a moral compass has any business in the U.S. military today.
I AGREE and it should begin with the Children and Grand Children between the ages of 17 and 30 of EVERY ELECTED or APPOINTED official in this country
Nothing the feral government does is ever “limited.”
All feral government policies are metastatic cancers that never stop growing.
Limit the draft to those who identify only by their biological sex at birth... Male and female...
Exclude perverts & non-citizens...
Start with the families at the top of the economic and political food chain.
Put all the trannys and homos in there. Make it mandatory.
No. We need a military dedicated from the top, and a foreign policy restricted to promoting a realistic and uncorrupted, uninflated, sense of the national (not deep state - imperial) interest. All volunteer would be more than sufficient.
It’s time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.
https://www.defense.gov/About/
. Our mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security.
If that was the true mission, we would attract the right people.
No. We don’t need a draft. If the military can’t draw recruits the military is wrong. If bad wars not fought to win discourage recruits, then the government is wrong. A volunteer military is an excellent bellwether for how much the country actually trusts its government and direction. If it can’t find the bodies then the government needs to get right with the people.
While the all-volunteer force had the effect of lowering discipline problems and professionalizing the force, it also created a vast gap between American citizens and those who serve — effectively creating a military warrior caste that now appears more like a multi-generational family business than an organization that represents the true makeup of our democratic republic.
Make sure we draft the wimmin too. They do everything better than men you know.
if we only need 160,000 out of population of 30 million, why the need for a draft? That’s such as small proportion of the eligible population. Could we increase pay and benefits, to induce more to enlist, if we really need more people in the military?
Do we really need 160,000? How big is the standing military force today? I don’t know, but wonder, how many do we really need for national defense purposes.
I understand we might need more, if we got into wars. But some conflicts in recent decades were “wars of choice”, where we really didn’t have to get involved militarily.
I sure hope and pray that Ukraine doesn’t end up with American forces directly involved. And I hope people aren’t thinking of a new draft to beef up our military, in anticipation of such an action.
Not only do we not need it we aren’t going to have one. Every so often these guys come out of the woodwork. The only reason the public has mostly gone along with these crazy wars since 911 is because of a voluntary military. If little Johnny or Jimmy had been drafted to go into this kray kray the public would have had apoplexy.
No one wants a draft.
The military is too complex these days. Throwing people who don’t want to be there into that mix would be a disaster.
And who are we in an existential war with? Not China. Not Russia.
Are the bugs about to take out Rio De Janiro?