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Just wait - Millennials and Gen-Z - until there's a war and an active draft in the US again.
Venezuela anyone? (Dear God, I hope not but the current asshat in the Oval Orfice seems bent on taking a page from the Monroe Doctrine and adding teeth. Gotta justify Kegsbreath's trillion dollar DOD budget plans after all..)
Shit's gonna get VERY real and you may gain a bit of insight as to why 'boomers just gave up and "went condo" as they used to say.
Ok, boomer
There will never be another draft. Our military is to big, and we aren't going to try to occupy anything. Drones knock down our deployment numbers drastically. Unless there was actually a war with someone like China or on our own soil, there is no need. We currently have about 2 million people already volunteered. Our largest force during the Afghanistan/Iraq bologna was around 100k. So we could send 10x that and not get into the reserves. Our military is way to damn big
The military also doesn't want to go back to a draft army. Discipline and morale suck with a draft army and there is severe political blowback to casualties from drafted personnel.
A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn't need to draft.
Selective Service would like a word with you.
An all-volunteer military isn't that ironclad an outcome. I can certainly see service being used to leverage young men and of course "inform" them with nationalistic propaganda.
I'm aware that the Selective Service exists in case a draft is needed, but the US military has changed itself to make sure that a draft has a very low chance of occurring.
The USA fought two occupations at the same time and didn't use a draft to fill personnel needs. A major reason why the USA didn't was because it would make the occupations far more unpopular than they were. There were political decisions all the way up the chain of command to prevent a draft, even when Afghanistan was portrayed in the media as a defensive war.
Sure, no drafts in the future isn't guaranteed, but it is a solution that the DOW will only pursue if there are no other options available.
that'll just be the start, these fucks will have US kids patrolling the darien gap and defoliating the fucking continent given half a chance
Oh, don't you know it.
If half of what cunts like Hegseth and President Miller want to do become action, this country is in for a rough time of it.. starting with everyone under 27. :(
cue Fortunate Son, not CCR but some shitty autotuned skibidi cover tho....