Draft Comes Back? Let's hope not!

Modern-era weaponry has seriously reduced the effectiveness of a possible draft. Not only are the technical systems far more complex (although many basics such as the service rifle of the US forces, have not really had the fundamentals changed since the last use oif the draft), the tactics have grown to be far more complex as part of what is very wrongly called "the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)."

Furthermore, you'd need to train a whole bunch of junoir officers, quickly, and post some very senoir NCOs (I may slip the term "NCM" occassionally - sorry if this confuses people, it's a Canadian terminology) to watch over them. Again, as warfare is now far more complex, training junoir leaders is now a very trying task indeed.

The idea of using conscripts as "cannon fodder", while morally wrong, is also veyr ineffective. Why bother equipping and training a suicide soldier to do a recce when you can just look through an IR device, use UAV data or gather satellite recconaissance? With the overwhelming artillery and air power now availible, the idea of a "human shield" is somewhat less attractive than one of a "shield of fire" in the form of an artillery or air barrage.

Draft? Unlikely.

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