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It's been 1973 since we became an all-volunteer force. Yet young men - and still no women (even with recent pushes to integrate women into all areas of the force) still must register for a potential draft. In your lifetime, do you envision the draft returning? And is it time to require women to register as well now? Or should we keep registration as it is?
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Posted 9 y ago
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There are two ways I can see the draft returning:
1) If the US entered into a massive land war again, on the scale of WWI or WII. Most of the Soldiers of the "Greatest Generation" were draftees. If the nation truly mobilized for war, then I believe its citizens would once again answer the call. However, there would probably be destruction at unprecedented levels.
2) A political move due to unforeseen shifts in government authority or societal focus.
From the current vantage point, both of the above seem very unlikely, but people throughout history like to always think that the previous "great war" is the last great war. We can only hope.
1) If the US entered into a massive land war again, on the scale of WWI or WII. Most of the Soldiers of the "Greatest Generation" were draftees. If the nation truly mobilized for war, then I believe its citizens would once again answer the call. However, there would probably be destruction at unprecedented levels.
2) A political move due to unforeseen shifts in government authority or societal focus.
From the current vantage point, both of the above seem very unlikely, but people throughout history like to always think that the previous "great war" is the last great war. We can only hope.
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I wish. Actually I wish everyone in this country would spend 18 months - 2 years doing mandatory service. Whether that be the military, teaching English in Mississippi, working at a retirement home in California or building trails in Colorado. If every American invested some time into our country, no exceptions, we would be a much stronger nation. People would learn to work from locations in the country they have never had to deal with, understand that there are different points of view (yes, I'm talking to all of you who keep posting about this group or the other not loving the US) and make everyone personally invest in the country which they don't do now.
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