The question a country needs to face before deciding to go to war is, "is it worth it?" The draft, and taxation, help to provide the needed reckoning. There i

The question a country needs to face before deciding to go to war is, "is it worth it?" The draft, and taxation, help to provide the needed reckoning. There is no comparison, here, to the provision of social services. Or to debt-financed infrastructure construction. War is categorically different.