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The US military itself reports it’s experiencing a severe recruitment shortage.

• jeffbee 2y ago
  The US Army all-volunteer force only seemed like it was working well in the 1980s and 1990s because of persistently high unemployment, low opportunity, and general discrimination against African Americans in the civilian economy. With unemployment at or below 5% for all races, military recruiting must be effectively impossible.
  • readyman 2y ago
    Correct. The primary beneficiaries of conscription are the working class.
  • nitwit005 2y ago
    Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. The veterans for those conflicts often went in enthused, and came back entirely disillusioned. Pretty much created a machine for damaging their reputation, which ran for decades.
  • RACEWAR 2y ago
    This is an interesting take and it sounds sensible. I wonder what the labor market looks like in Germany. As far as the US goes, I'm also curious how the dawning changes led by AI technologies in the workplace and budding trends in the labor pool will affect their military's posture recruitment-wise. We've seen them attempt to appeal to more diverse crowds in the last few years, but I think that the particular demographic(s) in question are most likely to equate serving the armed forces in general as bad. A generation comprised of mostly men without college educations who are not satisfied with Door-Dashing or "Twitching" for a living may not feel the same.