No. of Recommendations: 2
One of the strongest aspects of our military is its training and expertise. But that comes with a cost.
It takes years of training for many of our technical jobs in the military, and the percentage of "technical jobs" is only increasing. Even the ordinary, everyday infantry grunt has to learn any number of technical aspects to perform adequately.
And that aspect argues against a draft. By the time a soldier is adequately trained to perform a specific mission, either the war will be over, or his term of service will be ending.
Conceptually, I love the idea of a draft. Conceptually, it addresses some serious downsides to having a strictly professional army.
Practically, draftees would be little more than "meat" and cannon fodder.
