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In reply to the discussion: McChrystal: Time To Bring Back The Draft [View all]GarroHorus
(1,055 posts)If you implement a draft in the US today, the ramp up to get the first draftees in alone would cost billions and weeks upon weeks before that first soldier gets in.
Then the costs of training will be huge because you will have to ramp up the training efforts above and beyond what they are today. You will basically have to double the number of trainees per instructor at the very least, making the training ineffective and putting the lives of the trainees at risk the moment they enter a combat situation, and that would also take trained soldiers out of the field to dedicate to training the new draftees which will result in more inadequately trained soldiers in the field because you have too many trainees per instructor and your instructors were pulled out of the field in order to do the training.
And that says nothing about the effect on the morale of the new draftees in a country that has not seen a draft in more than four decades.
A draft only makes sense in the most dire of situations. Today does not qualify in any way shape or form.
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