i think some sort of compulsory civil or security service would be a great thing. We are increasingly coming from different ethnic/social/economic/ideological/political/religious backgrounds... i think it would do great things for our country if we could all have something in common from which to draw from.
that being said, i'm going to soon be an AF officer... i certainly do not want a draft into active duty military service. for the AF at least, we have filled all of our recruiting goals and i know that officer training programs regularly turn down qualified individuals because of high competition for training slots.
congress has put a limit on the number of personnel that can be in a particular branch of service at once... and each branch brushes those numbers on a yearly basis. we've got plenty of people volunteering, and plenty of people staying in. if those numbers aren't enough to fight the war in its current form... then we need to rethink how we're fighting it in the first place.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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