Ian MacLure wrote:
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Who says conscription has to be non-selective?
There's already something of a seperate draft for medical personel.
Huh? Please explain. There are no draftees in service.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. There is already the
structure of a seperate, targeted program in existence, but it has not
been "turned on".
"The Health Care Personnel Delivery System (HCPDS) is a standby plan
developed for the Selective Service System at the request of Congress.
If needed it would be used to draft health care personnel in a crisis.
It is designed to be implemented in connection with a national
mobilization in an emergency, and then only if Congress and the
President approve the plan and pass and sign legislation to enact it."
The point is not that it's not active, but that the idea of having a
targeted draft program has already been developed. If it can be done
for one job need, it can be done for another.
If a general draft were implemented again, why could it not be set up
to cherry pick only those with the skills / general education /
maturity the military thinks they can work with.
We don't have any need for a levee en masse on the scale of WWII
or even Korea.
The phrase "cherry pick" implies going through a large pool of
candidates to find the small fraction who have what you need. In
short, don't lower the standards for enlistment, but actually raise
them a lot, then virtually march everyone through the recruiting office
and keep the phone numbers of the small fraction who meet your
standards.
Everyone assumes a draftee army would be composed of high school
dropouts, but there's no reason the process could not be structured to
produce a smaller army composed exclusively of scholar athletes, or
whoever the generals think would be the best recruits.
IMHO a draft is a bad idea because getting into situation that would
require it are bad ideas.
Sometimes its not our call.
Perhaps, but the current administation is not exactly known for
creative thinking when it comes to seeking alternatives.