We arn’t going to be doing any of the small cruse missile attacks, we might be sending in ground troops in the near future. If this leads to an ally pulling in all of it’s friends could we end up drafting in preperation for what might come?
Who are you going to war against?
I think you might be better off waiting to see what happens before jumping to the conclusion that it’ll be an all-out war requiring mass mobilisation.
Due to the economic situation we are in today many leaders would most likely not mind going to war in the middle east. We would gain control of oil and our war machine would pump dollars into our slumping economy. It’s sick that the world might come to this.
Whoa there, boyo. Really jumping the gun there, aren’t you? You’re watching TV and hearing the politicians say we’re “going to war”, I think they mean that in a semi-metaphorical sense.
What they mean is we are now in operations, or “embattled”, with world terrorists. There has not been any statement about racing to all-out war with a foreighn nation.
And unless that nation would be China, I can’t possibly see the need for a draft. You also forget NATO will back us militarily.
Don’t scare yourself, man.
The whole reason I’m kinda paranoid is because I don’t have faith that the Government will really look out for it’s people as much as it will be dedicated to revenge.
It is highly unlikely that NATO faces the prospect of a large scale conventional war against an enemy so powerful we’d have to draft anyone. Drafting troops is done when you need huge amounts of manpower to fill out big Army formations and muster more people to take administrative roles for a larger armed forces.
As it stands, the collective military power wielded by the U.S. and NATO could handle any country we might conceivably go to war with. As a combined force, NATO is the most powerful military power in the world by leaps and bounds.
And who the hell WOULD be go to war with? Afghanistan? They’re having trouble fighting off their own dissidents, and they’re already scrambling to appease the West. Iraq? Their army isn’t any stronger than it was in 1991, and they were crushed. Libya? Pushovers. Lebanon? They can barely run their own country. There’s no other country we’d conceivably go to war against. So where’s the need for a draft?