Will there be a draft when America goes to war with China/Russia?

I believe theres a pretty good chance. Especially if Kamala becomes president. She is incredibly irresponsible and wouldnt be surprised if she plunges the world into war. The military is only hitting 60% of its recruiting targets and if we got thrust into war we would suddenly find all this magic drone technology doesnt work as well as promised and we need reinforcements. So yes there would be a draft. Im trying to be more positive and not fret about this stuff too much but its always in the back of my mind

I have wondered about if we could even scale production the way we did in WW2. Some how I can't see Ford and GM building tanks and bombers quickly or being able to crank out a dozen carriers in a couple years. Feels like we would rapidly run out of modern weapons.

I agree The All Volunteer Army ensures everyone in the Military because the want to be, These are Thee most motivated, The most willing to fight and die for the love of Country. With the Draft you get a lot of people who do not want to be there and you will have some who would not be willing to fight and die for the love of Country and you also risk getting a few who do not love the Country, believe it or not.

I understand what you're saying. However I don't agree 100%. I've written more than a few letters of recommendation to West Point, the United States Naval Academy and the United States Air Force Academy durning my time coaching x-c and track. Most of these kids were steered in that direction by their parent/s. And, no my high school didn't have any type of ROTC classes. It was a small town, small school.

We would be able to scale production. On an incredible level. All the plans are drawn, and the plant is in place. The U.S. military/Pentagon can be inefficient, but it is NOT stupid and it is incredibly thorough and forward-thinking. Somewhere in the US, there are warehouses full of everything from ball peen hammers to 2 aught 6 tweezers to every single type of IC chip needed to successfully prosecute any war on earth imaginable for the next 50 years. No other country can come close to the logistics, planning, production and methodology of the US military. We won't run out of anything.

The Taliban were motivated by religion, do you really think billions of Chinese will be motivated by communism or the communist party to fight the US? I doubt it.

You are really out of date. Labeling China a communist nation is circa 1973 not 2023. They are adding dozens of billionaires every few years to global billionaire list.

* China wants the Yuan as the global reserve currency.

* China wants to dominate and rule Asia.

* China wants to dominate Africa

* China wants to dominate and rule Eurasia.

A military conflict already is occurring. Too many posters on this thread envision war as: long range bombers, submarines off the coast and I.C.B.M.s. Think of frogs in gradually warming water.

Nice well thought out post. But what China wants and what China get are two different things.

Your frog analogy is interesting. Didn't Darwin claim humans evolved from reptiles? Maybe sometime in the near future the Chinese frogs will evolve enough to either learn how to jump out of the pot or turn down the heat. If they don't, then they'll stew in their own juices.

War in the traditional sense of invading another country and attempting to hold that country and subjugate the population is done. It doesn't work, and won't.

That doesn't mean that some idiot like Putin won't try. He obviously forgot his own country's mis-adventures in Afghanistan. And he clearly didn't learn from the US mistakes.

Future war is different. Electronic and economic war could be far more widespread than past wars fought over a strip of land.

China's economy is tied to the USA in ways that make a traditional war very difficult for them. Invading Taiwan would be a massive bloodbath and success is hardly a given.

The USA would be wise to continue bringing all manufacturing back from Asia to the Americas. If we can't make it here due to the economics of it, plant the factories in Mexico and Central America.

That was a good post Nancy! Keep posting!

There is a window of opportunity at the moment for China, but it is rapidly closing. Within a few years the U.S. will have large stockpiles of stealthy, anti-ship cruise missiles that will allow our carriers to effectively protect Taiwan from a much safer distance. A few years after that, we will have significant numbers of B-21s that can attack mainland China from Guam or even the continental United States. Japan will soon have large numbers of cruise missiles that can hit mainland China as well.

Any war with China will be fought by the Navy and Air Force. Large numbers of infantry will be unnecessary. We aren't going to storm the beaches.

The minute the first ICBM is launched there will be 5000+ more to follow immediately. Hopefully this will not happen, because what is the point?????, the Earth will be pretty much be destroyed, most Humans are dead or if not dead, will die a horrible death from radiation poisoning.

Only the elite idiots who have control over these weapons may survive, but they will be living underground for the rest of their life......wow that sounds like fun.

Military conflicts involving U.S. personnel on the ground usually are closer to frogs in gradually warming water, see Afghanistan from a few days after September 11th, C.I.A. officers were on the ground then U.S. s.f.s in October, 2001. U.S. military conflicts are rarely like Desert Shield/Desert Storm: thousands of U.S. personnel nearly immediately, late June, 1990 in Kuwait and K.S.A.

Correction: Thousands of U.S. personnel in K.S.A. from late June, 1990, not Kuwait.

The US military wants the world to think they suck...

I should be able to enlist since our "Commander in Chief" is over 80 years old and cognitively impaired. Bring it on, Commies!

There aren't 5000 ICBMs in the world. China has a few hundred.

Second-strike capacity also makes all-out ICBM attacks highly unlikely. Even if China were capable of taking out all of our Minuteman IIIs in their silos, we have a huge arsenal in our subs that they can't stop. This is actually why one of the main schools of thought in nuclear strategy is that we should abandon the nuclear triad and move to a submarine-only force. Stationary silos are a first strike target. One of the reasons that the U.S. was happy that Russia started using hardened silos in the 20th Century was that if Russia's nuclear force wasn't so vulnerable to a first strike, it was thought they wouldn't have as itchy of a trigger finger.