Just make all the politicians go to war. See how their decisions change.

Then you get Israeli politicians. Service is compulsory so they've all got at least an idea how the military works, and the older folks were involved in wars, and therefore ex military or intelligence officers. Some work toward peace and improvements, and some become hard-liners. So, sorry, but it's still hard to pidgeonhole them even if they've been to war.

You know what will happen then? They will never be exposed to actual combat.

If society believed it was immoral to start a war unless you're personally exposed to the risks of warfare then there would be outrage every time it happened.

In my opinion any politician calling for war needs needs to at least have a family member fighting in real combat. If I find out they don't then I will happily vote against them, even if it means voting against my ideology.

> In my opinion any politician calling for war needs needs to at least have a family member fighting in real combat. If I find out they don't then I will happily vote against them, even if it means voting against my ideology.

What if it's a family member they don't like?

> If I find out they don't then I will happily vote against them,

That would not work because it would work only after the fact. You want to prevent this kind of things from happening BEFORE they are even elected.

That's true but if it's an expectation we all have and violating it comes with social consequences then they will at least think twice before doing it

Or as System of a Down says:

> Why don't the Presidents fight the war? > Why do they always send the poor?

It's easy to send someone else to die when they're just a number on a report.

That didn't prevent Vietnam.

Yea because a fuckton of rich white men were able to get their sons deferments. Have you not listened to Fortunate Son? Also women were not in the draft, to the previous commenter's point.

Women, transgender, non-binary etc should all be included in a draft.

It's a nice thought but look at, for example, Donald Trump's deferment to see how it actually plays out for rich people.

How is that an interesting response to "make it mandatory with no exemptions."

You could explain why you are cynical about it happening, but just saying you are cynical about no exemptions is pretty boring.

So we should force a quadriplegic to join the military? We should force a hemophiliac to crawl under barbed wire? A blind person should have to learn to shoot a rifle?

You said "no exemptions".

Only a fraction of military assignments are combat positions. I knew one Viet Nam vet that spent his entire tour in an air conditioned bunker in Saigon hanging tapes on the computer that printed payroll checks.

Another, technically in a combat role, spent his tours in the radio room of navy destroyers banging out Morse code.

The problems you list are mostly surmountable.

Someone who enters the military goes through military training. If we're just forcing people to work, it's not military service. It's slavery.