Compulsory service across the board has always seemed more appropriate to me. It would help with the lack of discipline in the civilian population, while engen

Compulsory service across the board has always seemed more appropriate to me. It would help with the lack of discipline in the civilian population, while engendering a better understanding and appreciation for the realities of combat and war. On the military side I think it'd add some much needed diversity and perspective to a group dominated currently by "America, Fuck Yeah!" types who volunteered to go kill people and blow things up.