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Likely they want to use the draft to "break men in".

Funnily enough - as a transgender man, I am signed up for the Selective Service (they make you do it for FAFSA - get flagged if you put down male anywhere.) I’ve heard that I was supposed to get some sort of letter disqualifying me, but I just got the regular card. Guess I could be marching next to y’all in WW3.

We haven’t had enough enlistment to fill our military needs in decades. We have as many hired contractors as enlisted. The contractors are majority non US citizens.

We’ve been avoiding a draft because it would cause major resistance to our unnecessary military activities that can currently be pushed to the back of most people’s minds.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-forces-fy-2021-space-sof-civilians-and-contractors

Operational contractors continue to play a vital role in CENTCOM, holding a 2.8 to 1 ratio of contractors to military (up from 1.7 to 1 last year) as military forces exit Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan while contractors stay behind.

Maybe, I've seen a lot of recent increases in advertisements to join the military. If that crap starts up, that'll be what gets me to leave the country. There isnt a thing in the world that could get me to fight for these dipshits kn their misguided wars.

The US military is not draft friendly. Far too much of our doctrine is built around "skilled" combat (e.g. maneuver warfare) and our superiority comes from technology which has a high cost per soldier (the NVGs that Scumbag Steve lost cost more than it would to rush him through boot camp...) and requires maintenance. And, if we move forward with the XM7, that means fewer bullets per soldier which means a greater need to actually aim (and be indoctrinated so that they will aim at the brown person rather than fire over their heads).

Obviously we can do a massive doctrine change. But "senior military" will gladly support efforts that remove competition so that they can get promoted into a woman's place. They won't support efforts that will make them look incompetent when (and it is "when"...) we actually use the military... or that will impact all those "totally friendly" gifts and vacations they get from the companies building this gear.

In the event of a land war against Canada? All bets are off and you can be damned sure there will be "patriotic" efforts for "new recruits" to buy their own AR-15s from Walmart before reporting to the trenches. But that will happen regardless of whether the pesky women and gays and brown people have been cleansed from the military first.

Everyone (rightfully) shat on how ill equipped the russian military was outside of their "elites". And... there is a reason for that. You don't give someone off the street optics that cost a down payment or two on their pickup truck. Partially because they will lose (or sell) it. Mostly because they won't know how to use it. WW2/Vietnam era boot camp was basically "This is a gun. Point this end at the . Pull the trigger a few times to keep their heads down while someone competent does the rest".

It's the fall of the empire, America never had a golden era of the Republic.

"Roe" has always been part of her name.