I can't help but to wonder, down the road we're heading, will a draft even be considered? With automation, there's a lower need for personnel. Russia and China are developing military AI to support fully autonomous warfare. The US will eventually start doing that I'm sure (but it's not even on any priority lists, useless crap is), and so assuming we have that, I think we could be in the last few decades of drafting being a topic of debate, as everything advances onto further automation.
Just thinking. So, as a result, that must mean there will come a day within this century in which the draft loses support because it will simply be unfeasible.
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18 Aug 2018, 10:28 pm
