We need to reinstate the draft. 2 reasons:
1. America was better (in a number of different ways) when most young men served their country, and we always had enough troops for whatever arose.
2. The Middle East. All of it, and everything about it. It will never succumb to freedom and democracy as we know it, nor will the shia-sunni enmity fade away.....I don’t give a rip about democracy/freedom for muslims because they are incapable of it..........the other certainties islam and muzlims have brought to the fore require severe action now, to avoid the nuclear action sought by what at the moment is passed off as uniquely as Iranian aspirations, completely forgetting what has been called “the islamic bomb(s)” already owned and in missile/other deployabilities by our “ally” Pakistan.
Let’s quit kidding ourselves......
I know plenty of people who agree that we need the draft back.
Just guessing, but I think 6 month intervals may be better. May be more expensive, but I’m thinking of the troops and their families, that it’d be easier on them.
I am not a vet, but I have read that the conscript army we had back in the day was not so bad as they make it out to be today. What they lacked in long training assignments they made up for in a desire to get the job done and go home. You probably know all about that.