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Wishful thinking, in the Serbian- Croatian war they were drafting 60 year olds. Russia has dropped any medical exemptions.
Nahh, they'd have to be drafting 60 y/os by the time they got to me. Honestly ill just be impressed i held out that long.
Unless you foresee them instituting the draft tomorrow.
Russia's strategy has been to throw meat at the front until Ukraine runs out of bullets resulting in over a MILLION killed or wounded. The US had around 60,000 total casualties across the entire GWOT, with the vast majority just being wounded.
The point being I don't think the military will need a draft anytime in the future. That doesn't rule out the possibility trump does it for the hell of it, but at the same time I'm pretty sure the Republicans would impeach him themselves if he did that.
US military has a record number of recruits because it's the only way to get an education and healthcare.
eh, in the Netherlands you can get drafted until 45. at least there's no mandatory duty nowadays.. yet.