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The US Military Is Laying the Groundwork to Reinstitute the Draft
Mises.org ^ | 09/25/2023 | Zachary Yost

Posted on 10/01/2023 5:54:10 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

The most recent edition of the US Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the US military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average American citizen is a subsection entitled “Casualties, Replacements, and Reconstitutions” which, to cut right to the chase, directly states, “Large-scale combat operations troop requirements may well require a reconceptualization of the 1970s and 1980s volunteer force and a move toward partial conscription.”

An Industrial War of Attrition Would Require Vast Numbers of Troops

The context for this supposed need to reinstate conscription is the estimate that were the US to enter into a large-scale conflict, every day it would likely suffer thirty-six hundred casualties and require eight hundred replacements, again per day. The report notes that over the course of twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US suffered fifty thousand casualties, a number which would likely be reached in merely two weeks of large-scale intensive combat.

The military is already facing an enormous recruiting shortfall. Last year the army alone fell short of its goal by fifteen thousand soldiers and is on track to be short an additional twenty thousand this year. On top of that, the report notes that the Individual Ready Reserve, which is composed of former service personnel who do not actively train and drill but may be called back into active service in the event they are needed, has dropped from seven hundred thousand in 1973 to seventy-six thousand now…

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: conscription; draft; globalism; globohomo; military; natonazis; ukraine; ukrainewar; war; wwiii
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1 posted on 10/01/2023 5:54:10 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Good. Women, trannies, and minorities only.


2 posted on 10/01/2023 5:55:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Jan_Sobieski

M, M, M, 🧐🧐🧐


3 posted on 10/01/2023 5:57:34 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting….)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Nope.


4 posted on 10/01/2023 5:57:38 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The military doesn’t get to make that choice. And the draft is never coming back.


5 posted on 10/01/2023 5:58:52 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: EEGator

forced indoctrination. welcome to the modern woke military. next order of business will be to remove any and every stop that would prevent YOUR government from using YOUR military against YOU. good luck stopping THIS snowball before it’s too late. you, the American voter, did virtually nothing to stop it and worse...you STILL won’t accept it’s happening right before your willfully blinded eyes. enjoy the brave new world you let happen...while you can.


6 posted on 10/01/2023 6:06:51 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Qwapisking; EEGator; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; Red Badger

Mike Pence Says US Troops May Have to Fight If Ukraine Doesn’t Repel Russia

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4182802/posts


7 posted on 10/01/2023 6:09:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: discostu

This uniparty scumbag GOPe congress is questionable, however if the past is any indication they just might lose next year in their recurring pattern, the senate might too. They just might ram something through at the end of Xiden’s term and of course blame it on Trump.


8 posted on 10/01/2023 6:09:56 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Will they draft illegal aliens and other legal migrants?

If they don’t there will be hell to pay.


9 posted on 10/01/2023 6:11:26 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

From the President of the United States

Greeting


10 posted on 10/01/2023 6:11:55 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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11 posted on 10/01/2023 6:12:08 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

its about indoctrinating a behavioral standard into a generation of young Americans.

The school thingy evidently isn’t working out too well


12 posted on 10/01/2023 6:13:08 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanaheytion is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

A draft would be an utter failure today. It would not work. If uncle Sam wants cannon fodder he will have to pull a page out of putins playbook and force inmates into conscription.


13 posted on 10/01/2023 6:13:37 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Start with the 535 representatives. In the 1A group include all the media know it alls.


14 posted on 10/01/2023 6:13:40 AM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: SaveFerris

Mike Pence is Larry Craig holding a Bible.


15 posted on 10/01/2023 6:14:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: quantim

No. Dems aren’t going to vote for it. GOP won’t vote for it. There won’t be a draft.


16 posted on 10/01/2023 6:14:44 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: gundog

Private Pyle would be a platoon leader nowadays…


17 posted on 10/01/2023 6:15:52 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Jan_Sobieski

It’s one way to deal with the upcoming mass youth unemployment.


18 posted on 10/01/2023 6:17:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jim Noble

I’ve got my greetings letter! Came day after I enlisted!! Johnson was president. Told the board to stick it up where the sun don’t shine.


19 posted on 10/01/2023 6:17:20 AM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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20 posted on 10/01/2023 6:17:41 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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