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Originally Posted by Yakk
The USA has the spare military capacity to take on Iran. It wouldn't be free/cheap like Iraq was, but the USA has enough.
Draft a few million people, change the economy from peacetime to war footing, and you could steamroll Iran. To make the draft politically feasible, first you attack with insufficient forces, and open a reluctant selective draft of ex-military. If the original 'too small' force wins, all the better.
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I think you seriously underestimate the problem of draft resistance. if uncle sam came knocking for another war...i think it would be a real issue to get folks to go. i just don't think we have the political resolve to do any of that. if there was another devastating attack...yeah. but absent that, we're looking at the current volenteer force. with that? i don't think we can effect much of anything past air strikes in Iran. at least not with out substantially changing other deployments such as S. Korea.
Free? Cheap? Like Iraq was? Is there any reasonable explanations for these comments?