The answer to recruitment or draft lies in what type of fighting or border protection may be expected next after Iraq.
Before Iraq I believe an effort was being made to reduce overseas commitments, and now we have fewer troops in Germany and in South Korea. We should not need to patrol the SA and Kuwati borders or maintain no fly-zone bases.
Will there be any need for lots of troops in jungle terrain where our Predators or robot tanks are not useful as they are in cities.?
Draftees need years of training to be most useful,while temporarily reducing our overall effectiveness, and perhaps
will become surplus and dismissed before attaining excellence.
Those considerations make for difficult planning of military budgets and expenditures by Congress, who would be inclined to avoid a draft.
With very few answers to these questions, IMO we should go with the present incentive system, and perhaps a new type of service which permits people to sign up for various periods of 4 years ,6 years, or 8 years, or whatever, with varying bonuses or perks.
In saying this I haven't a clue as to how its done at present.(hahaha)
In regard to Wmd's, it would most useful to have a few million service men stateside vaccinated against smallpox, plagues, anthrax,and equipped with anti-radiation pills (iodine?).
They could be available to save civilian lives in emergencies but perhaps they could be part of Homeland Security which would keep our Military budgets down.
In summary, if it aint broke, dont try to fix it, and its not broke yet.
Sig
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