Why would you say that? They aren’t conscripting at all. There’s not even a whiff of anyone suggesting we need to activate the draft.
Conscription refers to involuntary military service, and there hasn’t been a hint of that since Vietnam (it worked out sooo well in Vietnam, with a crazy high incidence of soldiers killing their own superiors).
Even in voluntary service, recruiting is way less aggressive than it used to be. Growing up in the 80s/early 90s you were inundated with recruiting efforts, on radio, television, and even as a pretty aggressive part of school. My kid has not been nearly so exposed to recruiting efforts. Now we have a third of people going in compared to 1990 (and they are still turning down about 25% of applicants).
So I don’t know where you are coming from, but involuntary service in US isn’t vaguely in sight and even if you mistook voluntary service for ‘conscripts’, even that is at a 40 year low and still turning away people… Hardly seems ‘deseperate’
Why would you say that? They aren’t conscripting at all. There’s not even a whiff of anyone suggesting we need to activate the draft.
Conscription refers to involuntary military service, and there hasn’t been a hint of that since Vietnam (it worked out sooo well in Vietnam, with a crazy high incidence of soldiers killing their own superiors).
Even in voluntary service, recruiting is way less aggressive than it used to be. Growing up in the 80s/early 90s you were inundated with recruiting efforts, on radio, television, and even as a pretty aggressive part of school. My kid has not been nearly so exposed to recruiting efforts. Now we have a third of people going in compared to 1990 (and they are still turning down about 25% of applicants).
So I don’t know where you are coming from, but involuntary service in US isn’t vaguely in sight and even if you mistook voluntary service for ‘conscripts’, even that is at a 40 year low and still turning away people… Hardly seems ‘deseperate’