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The Return of the Military Draft
Foreign Policy ^ | 7/10/24 | Raphael Cohen

Posted on 07/13/2024 9:19:38 AM PDT by hardspunned

After decades of becoming increasingly rare, the military draft is back in the debate.

Israel—which has long had mandatory conscription—is currently debating whether or not to lengthen its service for reservists as a result of its ongoing war against Hamas and Hezbollah, and it may soon expand the draft to the currently exempted ultra-Orthodox population following an Israeli Supreme Court ruling voiding the exemption last month. In May, Ukraine expanded its draft in order to replenish its forces as it continues to fight off the Russian invasion. Russia has similarly broadened its compulsory military service in response to mounting casualties in Ukraine. In the Baltic states, Latvia reintroduced the draft in 2023 following Russia’s attack on Ukraine; Lithuania reintroduced it in 2015 in response to Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine; Estonia never abolished it. And halfway across the world, Taiwan recently lengthened its conscription period in response to increasingly menacing threats from China.

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TOPICS: Government
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To: hardspunned
DC is doing nothing effective and projects weakness and kisses the butts of our enemies, which is why the world is on fire right now.

The main problem with no draft is that there is no depth of reserves: if your current armed forces are used up, you're screwed because you have no body of trained reserves to call on to replace them.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

That's been true for 2000 years. I first heard it from my grandmother, after she described what it was like to throw as much as they could into some horse drawn wagons as the sound of German artillery came closer and closer in the Fall of 1914.

Americans have never known anything like that since the Civil War. That's why a forward defense is a good idea.

61 posted on 07/13/2024 10:36:48 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ansel12
How do you account for 33 years of draftees doing just fine in the military from 1940-1973, including the drafted Marines during all those wars?

A common, Judeo-Christian culture raised in a Capitalist society that was taught basic Civics. And even if the hippies of the latter generation were rebelling against parts of it, they at least understood it and embraced much of the rest.

62 posted on 07/13/2024 10:40:36 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Putin is a thug. Still no reason to steal taxpayer money and give it to a corrupt POS like Zel)
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To: wildcard_redneck

So what? It does that periodically. Fueled by lying stories like this. Like I said this mimeographed “story” shows up about once a year. And it’s always BS, and I always come onto the subsequent FR thread and point out that it’s BS, and people always say “but but but” and the draft hasn’t been re-instituted yet.

It’s BS. Every time. Including this one. And when see another version of this story next year. And next and next and next.


63 posted on 07/13/2024 10:42:20 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: laplata
In Nam we sent them to LBJ (Long Bien Jail).

Does that include the 18,000 draftees who came home in a box?

64 posted on 07/13/2024 10:45:06 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: hardspunned

Why are only those 18-25 year old males given the honor to
be selected for military service of their country?
The draft should be inclusive, all men and women 18-82 should be eligible.


65 posted on 07/13/2024 10:45:11 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald )
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To: ansel12
The draft didn’t change much for the Vietnam war

I give you McNamara's Morons

McNamara's Morons

66 posted on 07/13/2024 10:46:28 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“send their children”

Ha! Not a good phrase..


67 posted on 07/13/2024 10:47:25 AM PDT by dakine
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To: Sirius Lee

Which is true, and important, but also the military has been dealing with this for centuries and their number one important thing is to get the teen age and young men into their hands, and they can work with those kids over the first 6 months to get them grown up and trained and shifting gears.

A punk 19 year old doesn’t know his own mind and isn’t fixed forever, Marine drill sergeants, a sense of pride and accomplishment and a larger vision of the world and his role in it as a real man can change his views from what it was when he was smoking a doobie with his girlfriend and putting down “the man” and his bourgeois draft.


68 posted on 07/13/2024 10:52:30 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: discostu

We have had at least one Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was a draftee.

“General Shali” was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997.


69 posted on 07/13/2024 10:59:33 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

I kind of like the way the Ukes are doing it. I think the average age is 43. That’s the generation that should have taken steps to ensure the war never started. I think in Vietnam the average age at death for Americans was 21. One of my best friends at the time was killed at 18.


70 posted on 07/13/2024 11:04:05 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned
The Return of the Military Draft

You might as well say: "THE RETURN OF THE CIVIL WAR" because it will be about 5 generations against one. We're not fighting to protect the deep state, the rainbow jihad, groomers, child sacrificers, bloodthirsty pharma and defense corporations, psychotic bug munching billionaires, covid lockdowns, climate religions, open borders, inflating fed freaks, senile polititions or new world orders.

71 posted on 07/13/2024 11:05:22 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: janetjanet998

In 1972 when I turned 18 my draft number came up: 27. President Nixon did us all a favor by curtailing the draft and coincidentally, Governor Curtis of the State of Maine lowered the drinking age to 18. A good double whammy for sure!


72 posted on 07/13/2024 11:05:27 AM PDT by pingman (It's a Clown World, and we're paying for it.)
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To: dragnet2

Where did you get that figure?


73 posted on 07/13/2024 11:05:55 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ansel12

And didn’t want it reinstated. He was in during Viet Nam and saw how messy the military gets when it’s made up of a lot of people that really don’t want to be there.


74 posted on 07/13/2024 11:08:28 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

I agree it’s not coming back.


75 posted on 07/13/2024 11:09:18 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: hardspunned

Then any of the younger people who are fat, drunk and stupid will be in trouble.

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/fad17247-af5a-41a4-af94-6d27d7a5ee7d


76 posted on 07/13/2024 11:12:18 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: hardspunned

For our Vietnam War dead the average age was 23.1


77 posted on 07/13/2024 11:13:13 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: dakine
Ha! Not a good phrase.

Why not? That's how an awful lot of parents view it. Hell, I talked my son out of joining Air Force ROTC.

78 posted on 07/13/2024 11:15:18 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: discostu

I think they all say that for political reasons, I was in during Vietnam also and I think our old sergeants and combat units and Airborne, Marine, and Special Operations units would love to have that manpower pool over what they are having to use to fill and underfill our volunteer ranks with.


79 posted on 07/13/2024 11:17:10 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: hardspunned
I kind of like the way the Ukes are doing it. I think the average age is 43.

Our military is becoming more technological advanced. Drones are becoming huge now. So it'll take more skills.

That’s the generation that should have taken steps to ensure the war never started.

A 43 years old Ukrainian soldier was born when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. So how is it his fault?

80 posted on 07/13/2024 11:17:17 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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