It’s right there in his post, “mass slaughter.”
They already are doing essentially that. And we’ve not at war. We’re arming those in direct harms way, like Ukraine, South Korea, and Taiwan. We might get more involved in one of these conflicts one day, but I’d rather the Pentagon not have unlimited cannon fodder to throw at the problem.
I mean, if they aren’t going to work shitty, low-paying jobs to pay in for his pension and Social Security, shouldn’t they be fodder in a last ditch effort to maintain the American system of globalization so he can buy cheap shit at Wal-Mart?
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You’re a bit late on that one, chief.
I think you misunderstand completely. If we were to reimpose a draft, we ought to draft college graduates. I would further propose we ought to give each congressional district a quota. This would provide better-educated soldiers and ensure geographical distribution. If you like we could also take steps to ensure people from higher-wealth families serve.
Yes, and it would be better to readier than we are now. Unless you want to just hand over the Koreans, Poles or Taiwanese to their fate.
Do you have drill sergeants trained in the Socratic methods? Because I expect running a bunch of college grads through basic training will be a bit different from running a bunch of 17-18 year olds through it.
Well, that would help ensure the draft wouldn’t even happen, so yes, let’s do that.
Which, again, is why we should never use the draft again, because a draft leads to a less-ready military.
Getting ready is fine. If you don’t include the draft.
I’m not convinced that we have an insufficient number of men and women in uniform. But, if that is the case, we can find other ways to increase the ranks. I haven’t heard anyone in the military call for conscription, or raise a concern about too few people serving. I assume they know more than we do.
Well I did command a basic training company for a couple of years, but I appreciate your thoughts unburdened as they are from experience.
So we’re drafting “college graduates” in for “mass slaughter”? Well, at least Canada will benefit from the coming brain drain.
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If you tie a college graduation to a draft, do you expect people to continue graduating from college. I would assume many people wouldn’t bother and of the ones that do continue their education, plenty, I think, will find employers that are willing to treat someone that’s just shy of attaining their degree as if they have it.
Splendid idea!
By the Pentagon’s own study 77% of young people would not qualify for military service without a waiver of some kind.
Even More Young Americans Are Unfit to Serve, a New Study Finds. Here’s Why. | Military.com
Yep. Conventional recruiting has gone as far as it can go.
It’s a terrible idea. Besides, the reason Ukraine hasn’t won yet isn’t due to lack of soldiers. It’s due to lack of sufficient modern weapons. They’d be better off with more Abrams, Bradleys, F-16s, HIMARS, and so forth, along with plentiful ammunition, than they would be with a bunch of cannon fodder. They aren’t resorting to using World War I era machine guns due to a lack of soldiers.
Conscription? In 2023? That is a hilarious idea that would only have a chance of succeeding if America was invaded. Think fragging was a problem in Vietnam? The younger generations would reply: hold my beer.
Avoiding a draft would be way too simple. Just eat yourself into obesity or start taking every recreational drug you can get your hands on. And if asked, tell. If not asked, tell it to the mountain.
It’s been a number of years since being gay would get you out. Doing drugs might do it. Telling the recruiter that I will never stop smoking pot got them to finally stop calling me in the 80s. (And it wasn’t a bluff, I still smoke weed).
Ultimately, just like in the Vietnam era, anyone with means could get a doctor to say that you’re ineligible.
So, as I understand it, we’ve seriously depleted our military due to all the weapons we’ve sent to Ukraine, and your solution is to further exacerbate the workforce shortfalls the DIB* is experiencing by pulling a large number of recent college graduates out of the workforce.
Amid hiring boom, defense firms say labor shortage is dragging them down (defensenews.com)
*The Defense Industrial Base, you know, all the companies that have to ramp up production to replace all those weapons