re: Do you think the US will start conscription again?

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Should we start expecting mandatory military service in our country soon?

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shite no, it didnt work then it wont work now.

One of the differences between Vietnam and recent conflicts is the use of the National Guard. We needed conscription during Vietnam because the National Guard was not used overseas. In more recent conflicts, the National Guard was used and abused. Anyway, in my opinion, if the United States ever gets wrapped up in a conflict that would require a massive number of troops, we wouldn't have time to conscript anybody before the nukes are flying.

We don't need more troops to defend this country. We don't need the troops we have now to defend this country. We need the troops so politicians can play real life Risk™.

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The chances the next "war" has a ton of land infantry is probably low.

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Agreed, wouldn’t be smart to engage Chinese forces on the Asian mainland due to sheer numbers. It will be a primarily naval war in the South and East China Seas and we will be bombing the shite out of the mainland. We would need ground forces to supplement South Korea. We would have to blockade and choke China to death like Britain did to Germany in WWI. I think only China could contest us, from what we have seen from the Russian military for a year, that would be Gulf War 2.0.

I also agree with the people who say we will never draft again because we have a lot of volunteers and robots. However it would probably do us some good to adopt the Prussian model of conscription, even though that’s a pipe dream.

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You mean people don't want to sign up to sit through diversity and sensitivity classes, just to die in some foreign land for a rainbow flag?

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Amen!

The number keeps getting smaller every year in our military. They will eventually have to do something.....
I watched a video about new recruits on YouTube, some of those kids couldn't do 10 pushups! That's pathetic. I read they are easing training to accommodate today's softer generation.
Now they are letting trans people in, idk...
It's fricked

“The chances the next "war" has a ton of land infantry is probably low.”

This. We have WAY too much money invested in planes, boats, and smart weapons to need a massive amount of infantry, especially to DEFEND the country.

Going off on random wars overseas is another story but they’d never do a draft for an Afghan style war because the public wouldn’t stand for it. And frankly, our weaponry is way too advanced to put in the hands of ill-trained draftees.

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He should have laid off the dope over there

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You must be one of Hanoi Jane's fans. That's the kind of shite I encountered when i returned. I applied for a jiob and some pimple faced arse hole asked what kind of drugs was I on. I asked him what did he mean. He answered well you are a vet.I told him to go frick himself and walked out. I wasn't going to get the job anyway. frick him.

A friend of mine is concerned that his 20 year old son will soon be drafted, specifically because he's got some flight training under his belt while also attending college. This all stems from Zelensky saying that the US will soon put boots on the ground in support of their war with Russia.