In order to maintain a stable army the government needs to have the mental and physical ability to tolerate the stress and physical conditions. Paying volunteer soldiers proves less expensive than compensating millions of unwilling servicemen. When drafting people they will expect more of a return for serving their personal time.
Forcing these training cadres to put. It has been years since we have wanted or needed a draft, but in view of the United States being attacked on September 11, , I feel our country must be ready and prepared to defend itself.
If being prepared means reinstating the draft, a mandatory summons for military service, then I think we should consider this a reasonable proposal. I think the tragic events of September 11 will. America Needs The Draft A draft starts when there is a major crisis and extra troops are needed for combat. The draft only calls men to duty in a certain order in which they registered.
This is called the lottery. Only when Congress passes and then the president signs legislation, the draft can begin. After the Vietnam War was completely over congress felt the draft should be put to an end. The draft was finally put to an end in by congress. This pamphlet has been created to help you. The Selective Service System is an independent agency of the United States, which gives the President the right or power to conscript men for military service.
By the end of that war, the U. Many military personnel equate these maladies with conscription — despite the fact that as one of us can personally attest, these problems also plagued much of the first decade of the all-volunteer force. Draftees performed remarkably well during those wartime periods, perhaps because they were serving in conflicts widely supported by the American people. And even though only 29 percent of those recently surveyed said that the United States should have a military draft, public opinion could shift quickly — especially in the aftermath of an attack on the United States terrorist or otherwise that were to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Americans let alone millions.
Wars are way too complicated today for anyone but long-serving professionals. Draftees will be useless or worse, disruptive. Conscription in the future could look very different than the draft calls of Vietnam or Korea, which were designed to provide more infantrymen for the fight. There might be an immediate need to put financial experts and market analysts into uniform to help protect the nation from potentially disruptive economic warfare. Or the military might need to mobilize social media gurus who can help understand and then undercut the insidious messaging of highly sophisticated adversaries aiming to inflame and radicalize populations at home and abroad.
These targeted conscripts might also be drafted to be reservists, splitting time between uniformed and civilian jobs and leveraging skills from both. Abolishing Selective Service would strip an important arrow from the quiver of American defenses. The prospect of a future draft — even a modest, targeted one — serves as a quiet but important hedge against an unknowable future filled with ever-changing threats to the nation.
The United States must always retain an emergency way to respond to existential threats, and if necessary, mobilize parts or all of society in response. However, if something big breaks, there ain't a lot in the barn," said Lt. Hedelund, along with other high-ranking military officials and veterans, has warned that our military is at a critical crossroads and might be hard-pressed to meet the global demands of numerous ongoing missions as we face low recruitment and retention rates.
Not enough in the barn, indeed. That's 40 percent of the countries on this planet. However, this figure may be low and not accurately reflect our total number of secret ongoing special ops deployments.
Sources at U. Dennis Laich says. Laich is the author of "Skin in the Game" and founder and executive director of the All-Volunteer Force forum, which contends that our current all-volunteer military is "unfair, inefficient, and unsustainable and contributes to the civil-military gap and the militarization of U. He argues that it might not take the threat of a rogue nation to initiate a draft -- rather, it may be a crisis based on manpower.
Laich and many others argue that an all-volunteer force is a fiscal disaster in the long run. Given our current level of debt, he says this trend is "unsustainable" and that "we can't afford the all-volunteer force that we have today.
And Laich contends that this money is clearly an incentive for the socio-economic underclass, which brings the issue of fairness into focus. I served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam 31 May to 31 May So my years in the military were dramatically different from Mr. Epstein's service.
Much of what I experienced was so horrific, having viewed the human face of war on the wounded grunts, wounded civilians and even a few wounded VC guerrillas. They were all victims of that tragic and unnecessary war. Therefore I would never subject our young men and women to the draft, given that both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq now rival the Vietnam War as foreign policy debacles.
I think that if Mr. Epstein served in Vietnam he would be less willing to bring back the draft, especially if he saw and experienced what I did. That in no way denigrates his service to his country. So he has a civilian mentality. The mentality of civilians on the draft, though, has been overwhelmingly negative the past few decades:.
As a mother of a teenage son, I find it supremely cynical that Mr. Epstein would suggest sending my son to war where he might be killed or maimed, based on his own recollections of having a good time in the military, far from any danger. Yes, living and training together with people from different walks of life has its merits. But what the author really has in mind is not an army but a glorified long-term summer camp.
McDruid is wary of the draft for many reasons:. Maybe two million people would be taken out of the work force—that's a big hit to the economy. We'd have to pay them too, because we can't have slave labor. So run up more government deficits or taxes as you run up the flag. Add in training costs, food, uniforms, ammunition, and you have a tidy sum that would be better spent educating them in useful matters.
And, perhaps the worst: If we have a bigger military, then we might be pressured to use it more. Why not send troops to Syria? We're paying for them anyway. We'd end up mired in more wars, not fewer. Bubba Gump , on the other hand, sides with Epstein:. I spent It never hurt me one bit and I met some interesting people along the way. There is something about the uniformed military service that you just can't take away from one who served.
It let me travel the world and have lasting connections that are a bond that only service members know. It also showed me the gruesome effects of war and what it can do to people up close and personal. When you have a screaming 18 year old coming across the radio begging for help, you know you cannot let them down and will do whatever necessary to get them out of that jam. It wouldn't hurt us to spread the wealth of those experiences around a bit. So I'd give the draft a thumbs up, but it should be equal and fair.
No deferments for education and only medical disqualifications apply. Bubba Gump clarifies his stance:. You draft by lottery and fill the slots you need. We currently only have 11 active divisions with one being an integrated division. We need at least 13 minimum to do the current job. One of the last lotteries took place on December 1, , and this long, mundane, but macabre scene gives you an idea of what it was like to see your number come up:.
Would it be good if your workplace was filled with snarky, malingering folk who never missed a chance to say they didn't want to be there and thought the whole organization was stupid or a crime?
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