Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:11:18 GMT

Will There Be A Draft? What Can You Do About It?. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq drag on year after year, military tours of duty and reserve call-ups are extended, and enlistment declines, more and more people are beginning to wonder how soon the Pentagon will run out of “volunteers”, and turn to a draft. I'll be leading a… [The Practical Nomad]

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well, if there is a draft, that will change politics a fair amount, i'd say…. it might get the reaganites out of the military advising business for a while. my logic there is that if people with reasonable ideological stances go into the military, then you will have less necessity to get advice from those who went off the deep end a long time ago.