Granted, my cohort is too old for combat. No amount of training could put us in the kind of physical shape needed for that job. But we’re not too old to do many

Granted, my cohort is too old for combat. No amount of training could put us in the kind of physical shape needed for that job. But we’re not too old to do many of the other jobs the military needs done. Military effectiveness is more than ever about brains than brawn The draft has always been about brawn, not brain. The brain in the military has always been career military, the fact that military effectiveness is more about brains than brawn played a non-trivial role in ending the draft.