What would be the pros and cons of the military draft being reinstated?

Question

Just would like to hear pros and cons of a military draft thanks to all who can help!!

Answer 1

i can't think of any pros

Answer 2

First things first the draft was started in World War Two and had nothing to do with Vietnam. Due to the military size during the occupation of Germany and Japan coupled with the Cold War and Korea it remained in effect from the 1950's on until shelved in 1975. The dead in Vietnam included a lot of volunteers as well as draftees; I was a volunteer in to the service and Vietnam most of my fellow Marines were volunteers also. So quit saying the draft was because of Vietnam. The riots and protests against the draft started when the easy out "college deferment" to get out of the draft was revoked and the rich kids who had been hiding in college suddenly couldn't do it-not a moral thing against the war. As long as the poor kids got drafted and went to Vietnam it wasn't' a problem.
Pros-Only needed when a large number of personnel are neede or a sudden large expansion of the military is required; neither is true right now.
Cons: No reason to do it or talk about it since even the military doesn't want it.
If it was needed and deferments are minimized it allows the military to more close resemble the population of that age group; rich, poor, black, white, and sections of the country are more evenly represented.
Cons-Typically shorter enlistments which mean the majority will go to the non-technical fields, they don't want to be there.

Answer 3

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What would be the pros and cons of the military draft being reinstated?
Just would like to hear pros and cons of a military draft thanks to all who can help!!

Answer 4

There are no pros. Look what happened in Vietnam. You had drafted a lot of people into a war that America did not support and look what happened. We got handed to. You do the same thing in a war against the same type of enemy (gorilla type warfare with extensive knowledge about the war zone) and you are going to get a lot of Americans slaughtered. On top of that, you are going to have a bunch of people that don't want to be there and will do anything to get out and will wind up ruining the rest of their lives because they got such terrible discharges from a non-volunteer military.

Answer 5

Pros- less stress on current volunteer army - better able to defend ourselves Cons- Expensive - Political suicide to enact a draft - many young people don't want to be in the military - low morale among draftees and volunteers who don't trust the draftees

Answer 6

I'll just give some cons from my point of view.
Most of my pros are a little too questionable.

Cons: Too many jack-asses out there that dont belong in the service. Plenty of people that dont need to be given weapons or training in how to hurt others.
I dont want to have the man in a foxhole with me not want to be there. That will just make me not trust him.
Liberals would march/protest/blah blah blah. Because they love sticking thier noses in other peoples business.

Answer 7

This is like an essay question!!! I could write PAGES to answer this....
But when it comes down to it, I think the draft is a FANTASTIC idea!!!
Our country is spoiled.... I would LOVE to see all these idiots that bash the government / war / authority / America-in-general go learn some respect and real pride... see what freedom costs... earn the right to say the stupid crap that comes out of their mouths!!! ;)
That will be the day!
Of course, I would hate to serve next to them while they get themselves together....
Go Army!! :)

Answer 8

One major por for me would be more man power meaning shorter stays in iraq for soliders which i would be all for considering my husband has been 3 times 1st time 7 months 2nd time 12 month currently working on a 15 month tour.

Con's many people don't want to be military meaning there would be good soliders ricking their lives depending on someone to bcak them up who could care less becuase they were drafted.
Not all people are cut out mentally, emotionally, and physically to serve in military.

Answer 9

I don't know about cons, but the pro's would have to be, getting kid's off the streets & learning something useful that would come in handy in later life, learn a trade, learn RESPECT ( that's always good)

Answer 10

Pros: You would force all the kids from the rich elite to defend their country side by side with the common guys. Once they're there, they will be just as loyal & patriotic as the next guy...they were in nam.
Cons: They'd lose their right to choose...but did they ever really have it?

Answer 11

I believe in the Free Market if the Military can not make recruiting requirements we should increase compensation just like every other employer.