• foodandart@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      Venezuela

      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

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        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. :(

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      8 months ago

      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

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        8 months ago

        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.

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          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.