This country will never see another military draft in our lifetimes.
You see the fantasy being shopped around about winning WWIII with the Russians. Not a nuclear war but a kinder, gentler WWII meat grinder. That war goes nuclear before you could call up your first draftee.
I can see the idiots in DC continuing to overcommit American forces around the world and needing a draft to maintain them. We are at that point now.
Just imagine the MIC bonanza if, by a simple majority vote in that nest of warmongers, the Capitol, those warmongers had all the men they needed for all of their foreign misadventures. All of those guys would have to be anrmed and trained. MIC generational Cha-ching$$$$.
Exactly. For a multitude of reasons. 1. The way our legal system and courts are these days, one judge can stop it all.
2. The way mommies and daddies helicopter their kids into their 30s, there would probably be a lot that would accompany their kids to a theoretical boot camp.
3. The poor relative physical shape of today's young adults.
4. The lack of a law enforcement to round up people who don't show up. (Though the more I think of it, it is more likely that would haul in some white 20 year old from rural Kentucky than some illegal alien, so scratch #4)
It won't be necessary. We'll see drones, droids, etc instead.
The senior enlisted ranks in the military today do not even possess the skill set to train, lead, and discipline malcontent conscripts who don't want to be there. These people would be a liability to mission readiness.
Yes, I understand many would answer the call and serve honorably but many others would not and these individuals would be an absolute toxic presence to the rest. We won't shoot them so we'd have to build military prisons to lock them away. Prisons cost money and need guards and food, resources that would be taken from the budget elsewhere.
And then what's the point of drafting people just to send them to the brig for insubordination or worse, sabotage.
No, I agree. There will not be a draft.