Interview: U.S. Navy Personnel Chief Worries Over
Potential Service Retention Problems
Poster’s
comments:
1) Given we in the new world USA are
unilaterally disarming (perhaps just an opinion), one can predict many
Americans will bail out of their military service they volunteered for. This idea will apply both to those
joining, and those who choose to stay in at the end of their present contract.
2) If such happens, I can imagine our future
politicians will reinstitute the forcible military draft that so many still
loathe.
a. That it is a numbers game for both “gear” and
“people” becomes obvious for those Americans who have to make it happen.
3) So much for the all volunteer military system
begun in the early 1970’s. I, myself, don’t remember voting on this big issue
about ourselves, especially our children since the burden usually falls on the
younger people to fight and die.
4) Older types will suffer, too. I had a barber
in Louisville, Kentucky, who got drafted during WWII at age 36 or so.
5) I suspect many in the military will still
want to “re-up”, but their spouses will say “no”. There are many present
reasons they will say no, I believe.
6) There is one obvious alternative. We can just
surrender to a regional power, like Iran.
Then see what that gets us. Imagine a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf
area for example. Even multiply it by the seasonal monsoon winds and
international effects our politicians will then pontificate on.
7) In such a situation, I can imagine a forcible
military draft coming back into existence in the new world USA. And the whole
process will take time, like even another World War.
8) Many will say “that did not have to happen”
and that is “pretty stupid that it did”.
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