MikeK
Gold Member
Two noteworthy advantages of the draft:
1) The draft maintains a constant presence of millions of trained soldiers in the civilian sector who can be re-activated in a matter of weeks rather than the months it takes to train raw recruits.
2) A conscript army is the Peoples' army. A volunteer army is the government's army.
Because of the lesson learned from the Vietnam debacle Bush could never have conned us into Iraq if the draft were still active. So the military events of the past ten years stand as irrefutable evidence that America will be better off with an active draft.
1) The draft maintains a constant presence of millions of trained soldiers in the civilian sector who can be re-activated in a matter of weeks rather than the months it takes to train raw recruits.
2) A conscript army is the Peoples' army. A volunteer army is the government's army.
Because of the lesson learned from the Vietnam debacle Bush could never have conned us into Iraq if the draft were still active. So the military events of the past ten years stand as irrefutable evidence that America will be better off with an active draft.