There are about 1.3 million active duty members in the U.S. military. If the services can get enough volunteers, a few thousand non-volunteers may be more trouble than they are worth just to make your numbers. And that is not enough to move the needle on any social issues conscription is supposed to solve.
And where will they go? Back in the day, the Army took the draftees because mass conscription was twinned with mass infantry formations. Today’s military relies on smaller, mobile formations working with surveillance technology and precision guided weapons.
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe deployed over 2 million troops; today they would be getting in each other’s way.
I have used the term “soldier” as shorthand for military member, but a soldier is a member of the U.S.
Army. If the military relies on conscription, will the Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard take their fair share of conscripts? I already know what the Marines will say!
The fact is, we have the most-qualified, best performing military in history and it would be malpractice on a historic level to try to create a mythical past of the mixing-pot military or a mythical present of shared sacrifice. The military has been a handy social science laboratory ever since it successfully
integrated in 1948. That signal success has made it attractive to social engineering advocates, and we are witnessing it today in the fight over the status of transgender troops.
Let’s look at what the military really does:
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Originally Posted by Peter1469
