Get Ready: The Push to Restart a U.S. Military Draft Has Begun

• Get Ready: The Push to Restart a U.S. Military Draft Has Begun
  by LEO HOHMANN, https://leohohmann.substack.com/
  Military news outlet runs op-ed by retired Marine lieutenant colonel saying why Americans need to offer up their children to the neocons in Washington
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  Joe Plenzler, a retired combat decorated Marine lieutenant colonel who served as the strategic advisor for communication to three successive Commandants of the Marine Corps from 2010 to 2015, penned an op-ed at Military.com last week in which he called for a “limited military draft.”
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  Plenzler says “It’s time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.”
  I get it. The military is unable to even come close to meeting its targets for recruitment, off by 20 to 30 percent in every branch except the Marines, which is struggling as well but might just barely make its goals this year.
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  My guess is that the last thing Biden would do is reinstate the draft now, given that we are entering an election year. But with the neoconservative warmongers who run Washington itching to get into a war with Russia, they will definitely need a draft soon and are probably planning to start one up shortly after the November 2024 election.
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  Plenzler notes that today, the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war — both of which he admits ended unsuccessfully — and low unemployment, “many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point. And American confidence in its military is at a low.”
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  He says the fastest and most effective way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we recruit. Instead of an “either an all-volunteer force or a fully conscripted force” model, he proposes a hybrid solution.
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