I don't think OP was commenting on the value of a soldier's life, just the fact that general infantry is a job pretty much any healthy individual can do. If you

I don't think OP was commenting on the value of a soldier's life, just the fact that general infantry is a job pretty much any healthy individual can do. If you wander down the streets and pick the first 1,000 people you see, chances are a good number of them would qualify. But if you try to give those same 1,000 people a software job, most of them would be terrible. Hell, most people employed as software engineers seem kind of bad at it. It isn't the type of job that lends itself to a draft. Of course, you aren't limited to just the first 1,000 people you see. Maybe you ask FAANG for a list of their engineers, and randomly take 10% of them. Good goddamned luck with that. Google has had trouble getting their own engineering teams on board with DOD work. You try to draft those engineers? You will see a vindictive pettiness unmatched in human history. It would be the least productive engineering team ever assembled. [1] Well, that used to be true. The general health of the American public isn't great right now, either.