Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military Strike

Re:Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military ... by zamadatix on Saturday January 04, 2020 @10:10PM (#21959364)

So the pay goes down, the work becomes forced, and non-military technology innovation continues to pay the same high rate as before and you think this would be an efficiency gain? The government can't just will cheaper work into existence by saying it, everything has its cost eventually.

If your goal is to cut costs then just lower budgets. If your goal is to get people because nobody wants to then maybe you shouldn't be at war since nobody wants to support it.

And yes, you're civilian skills are considered for your role in most any military. Most places just don't have mandatory service.

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Re:Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military ... by chriselles on Saturday January 04, 2020 @10:25PM (#21959415)

I’m not a big fan of mandatory service.

But the 5 Eyes militaries don’t do a very good job of leveraging civilian skillsets of their Reserve/National Guard soldiers, sailors, and airmen.

We talk about it all the time, and we try, but we haven’t been consistently successful.

A few halo casts to brag about?

Absolutely.

But consistently?

Nope.

Tons of latent intellectual and SME value waiting to be captured and focused.

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