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Originally Posted by Lebell
Another case of the post title not matching the facts presented.
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The post title I think accurately reflects both the tone and the content of the RS article that it quotes.
Whether one agrees with it or not depends on one's assessment of the big military picture; i.e. whether one agrees with people like Charles V. Pena, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute, or James R. Helmly, Chief of the Army Reserve.
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Originally Posted by Lebell
The only thing I saw that could even remotely be called a back-door draft is the extending of enlistment periods, which I don't know enough about to know if what was said is true.
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If you are seriously interested in this topic, you might want to click on the second link (on the National Guard) provided in the thread-starter post.
This story on the Army Reserves is also relevant, and was quoted in the RS article:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/US-...?oneclick=true
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The Reserve commander, Lieutenant-General James Helmly, wrote in a memorandum to the army chief-of-staff, General Peter Schoomaker, that the part-time corps is "rapidly degenerating into a broken force".
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Originally Posted by Lebell
The government has always had plans to draft people it needs in the event of a major war (geez, don't any of you watch M*A*S*H?  ) |
Well I'm sure the American Medical Association is aware of that TV show. But when word got out that the Selective Service was in the process of reactivating procedures to draft medical personnel, the AMA was so alarmed that they voted to maintain a continuous dialog with the agency for the duration of the Iraq war.