The US Dept. of Defense was established after WWII, in the late 1940s. DOD has a truly poor track record with undeclared wars.
The Dept. of Defense has made use of a draft in what wars won by the US?
Both major US political parties may be forced to downsize their ambitions for various overseas military operations when American families no longer send the young ones to enlist and will not support a draft.
Look and see if the new military aid packages create any wave of enthusiasm to sign up.
Newspeople refuse to ask:
What happens when American families no longer send the young ones to enlist and will not support a draft?
Thousands of US families have now had a loved one who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Will they encourage new enlistments?
A nation that can’t get a handle on cartel drug use in public, camping on the sidewalk, random gunfire in public & staying out of decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars may be looking at a draft.
The US Dept. of Defense spent the last 30 years squandering prestige and credibility overseas and at home.
Four-star officers and high level DOD civilians built careers made of undeclared/unwon wars. Now they must mastermind ways to recruit a new generation.
Some may say it is time to bring back a draft.
A Draft? – DOD Brand Has Been Wrecked
They tried that during the Vietnam War. They found out they had to stop.
Last time there was a draft, children were raised by the WWII generation, in families where Mom and Dad were married to each other.
Prediction:
The breaking point will come at the US Armed Forces recruiting office.
Breaking Point Will Come At The US Armed Forces Recruiting Office
There is no WWII generation to encourage new enlistments like there was back in the Cold War era of the 1980s.
Prediction:
Americans will not support a draft.
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Understandable why young people & their parents & grandparents would take a dim view on all this.
The DOD brand has been wrecked.
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Would any newsperson ever ask:
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