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Honestly asking - surely this isn't something that the United States would seriously consider in this day and age, is it?
by King-Aaron 9y ago
Honestly asking - surely this isn't something that the United States would seriously consider in this day and age, is it?
- Synaesthesia 9y agoThe NSA has had a long history recruiting elite cryptographers and keeping secrets from the public. Given today’s prevailing attitudes towards China and Russia (ie Cold War 2.0),I’m not shocked.
- King-Aaron 9y agoHackers being involved with the government isn't what surprises me, moreso the consideration of bringing a draft back, after the public backlash from Vietnam. I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?
- krapp 9y ago>I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word? Backlashes are cyclical and sometimes generational - the hippies against the beatniks, the yuppies against the hippies, etc. The current political and cultural zeitgeist in the US seems to be much further right and pro-war than it might have been 40 years ago.
- jcranmer 9y agoIt's unlikely that the military is going to ask for a return to mandatory conscription mechanisms. The main advantage of conscription is that it gives you lots and lots of bodies to throw at a problem, but the quality suffers as a result, particularly since conscription is usually on shorter terms than enlistment (so you spend more of your time in training as opposed to in the field).