And the research seems to disprove the core premise of the person I responded to ("only men are drafted because women are kept to be bred to repopulate the coun

And the research seems to disprove the core premise of the person I responded to ("only men are drafted because women are kept to be bred to repopulate the country, because 1 men can get multiple women pregnant"). From the abstract: > Using unique archival data, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility Lower rate of fertility is the important bit.