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... which is incredibly naive. It assumes a permanence to the current state of affairs where none exists. A World War scenario could not be fought with voluntee
by remarkEon 6y ago
... which is incredibly naive. It assumes a permanence to the current state of affairs where none exists. A World War scenario could not be fought with volunteers, which is why the Selective Service System still exists.
>even in major contingencies.
Yeah, no. There are contingency plans for major conflicts that absolutely do involve the draft.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> A World War scenario could not be fought with volunteers It absolutely could. Something that looked like WWI or WWII couldn't, but a modern major power conflict wouldn't look like anything like those. > which is why the Selective Service System still exists. But no draft law, and thus no conscription, exists: conscription is no one's burden. Any actual draft law would likely make changes to the selective service system based on whatever vision of conscription motivated the draft law itself, rendering guesses about the hypothetical future burden of conscription based on the registration-with-no-legal-basis-for-conscription system that exists today purely speculative.