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Originally Posted by lookout123
is a draft utterly impossible? no - nothing is impossible. it is extremely unlikely though for a couple of reasons. the military has seen lean times in the recruiting world before, it is just a cycle.
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We have never seen the lean times with over 160,000 troops deployed, possibly for years. The National Guard is being deployed in combat for the first time since WWII. Recruitment is down at the same time Congress is talking about increasing the size of the military.
Unless the shooting, stops, I don't think we will be able to maintain a volunteer military. We have never fought a major war in the 20th century with a volunteer military.
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