I agree with you that the US military does not currently operate this way, but if the level of recruitment keeps falling (which is the article's title, after a

I agree with you that the US military does not currently operate this way, but if the level of recruitment keeps falling (which is the article's title, after all), its not far off that the govt make a large scale citizenship for military/law endorcement service deal with poeple eager to enter. This is what Rome did.