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If you've got kids. Make plans to get them out of the states. (lemmy.world)

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Pick a border. Whichever you're closest to. North or South. Look into making a plan. Crossing the border illegally is an option. Probably a better option if a draft is called. A charge and claiming asylum is preferable to being caught on the wrong side of a checkpoint. Fleeing war is a valid asylum claim pretty much anywhere on the planet.

Military recruitment has been all time low year over year for a decade or more. And Iran isn't Iraq. That is a modern professional military armed and trained just as well as our guys. This won't be a professional military vs an insurgency armed with homemade bombs and soviet era relics. If you want a peek at the attrition rates this war will have go look at the numbers coming out of the Ukraine war. On both sides.

Back when Bush's War on Peace kicked off my dad made plans to get me out. He looked up an old war buddy he was in Vietnam with who lived in Canada. They planned to smuggle me across the woodlands. Not through an official crossing. Thankfully that plan never needed to be used. But he was serious. And I remember how serious he was.

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[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Iirc, current law allows for drafting from 18 to 26. No idea what would be required just to reinstate a draft, whether that would be a presidential declaration, law change, or something else entirely.

Edit: [this song] (https://youtu.be/0sajngb0W6I) may answer your question better

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ideally, there shouldn't be a draft. That's why we have the Reserves; so we don't need to enact a draft ever again.

Source: I served for 20 years in the US military. When the 2003 Iraq War kicked off, a bunch of people joined the Reserves to say they were doing their part without actually having to do anything. They were shocked when we sent them to war first.

The active duty military were already running operations at dozens of bases around the globe. We couldn't just drop everything and go join a war. So we sent the Reserves to set up new bases in the Middle East and started trickling in active duty members as the bases became more established. I didn't get to Iraq until 2007.

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Source: I served for 20 years in the US military. When the 2003 Iraq War kicked off, a bunch of people joined the Reserves to say they were doing their part without actually having to do anything. They were shocked when we sent them to war first.

This is the intended effect of the Abrams Doctrine. After the abuse of presidential power that got the US into the Vietnam Conflict, Gen. Creighton Abrams wanted to make sure the entire country would feel the hit of the US' bellicose nature and to put a check on presidents wielding military power. Of course, these good intentions always get warped and SecDef Laird's Total Force Policy basically found a loophole for maintaining a larger fighting force that could be called up while playing Three Card Monty with the budgets.