Some advanced economies/countries actually have forced military service for a few years. I don’t think it’s a bad idea per se, but I’d have to research and read why the draft was done away with to begin with here and see if that reason still applies…
Some countries I found notable still with a draft are: Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, Israel, South Korea, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand…
That said, a lot of wars aren’t fought by troops alone anymore and some cons the military state is that they don’t actually want people who don’t want to be there…
You would probably also have suicide crazies like it was posted if everyone had the training, not to mention the stress of it all.
I think also, unlike a LOT and nearly every foreign country in the world, the USA isn’t as homogeneous of like minded or similar minded people. Since this country has all immigrants, trying to get them to work together when they probably hate their fellow American or come from a totally different background doesn’t sound like a recipe for success…You already see this in business/professional life where if you aren’t in the old boys club, you aren’t going to get ahead…
A lot of countries probably use this more as a defensive mechanism…If there was an option to have conscription PURELY for defense like if China invades, then I think more people would be for it…Like you can’t be deployed in a foreign country and only in CA or US, etc…
I certainly don’t care about big oil in the middle east or political games in Russia/Ukraine to want to go there to defend people or BIG BUSINESS I don’t know/care about or if I even know who is in the right…
