The problem with militarism is eventually you run out of others people's teenagers.

A problem easily solved by having a recession.

This was what happened during the build up to WWII in Nazi Germany and Japan.

In fact, Europe is already doing so with their militarization budget. In China, anecdotally, I am already seeing more and more military recruitment ads. Not surprising given the high rate of youth unemployment in China right now.

We are going to see more and more military build ups across the world as the global economy enters a recessionary phase.

Obviously nobody is doing a ground invasion of Iran. It's so annoying seeing people frame it this way. As has been mentioned all over already, they're going to do the air bombing campaign of Libya, Gaza, Vietnam, Korea, etc.

They don't need to do some meticulous ground invasion if their goal is just to reduce a society to rubble. They'll just drop bombs and fire missiles until people are dying of water-borne diseases.

If I get drafted my life is actually just over

well, you've got to run out of violent sociopaths eventually

Thankfully they have banned trans people from joining the military, and they've even started kicking out long time trans soldiers with a dishonorable discharge.

I started freaking out about a draft but then I remembered I'm 34 and trans so seems unlikely, unless they get very desperate. If they do I'm fragging my CO

two dudes in glasses in the pic lol if I'm going to war I'm not doing it with my fucking glasses on

I know contacts will fuck you with chemical weapons in your eyes but tbh you're fucked then anyway and I need my peripheral vision and for my vision to not fall off my face

The US wasn't ready for Iraq and Afghanistan, either. I remember a general on TV saying we'd need 4 million troops to occupy Iraq. We had 4 million troops total stationed across the globe. Still, Bush decided to open up a second front.

Draft me I'm normal I can be trusted with a tank

They're so desperate I saw airforce recruiter pamplets in a tropical smoothie. I guess its the only branch appropriate for someone who likes "healthy" food and/or cold smoothies. (Funny since I briefly thought about the chairforce before realizing I didn't want to die for oil.)

But have you considered them using ISIS + The Kurds?

Good, stay that way.

Gil Barndollar is a former Marine officer and a current scholar of U.S. foreign policy and national security.

gil's been trying to get the draft reinstated for a long time.

i actually surprised myself by getting to the end of this piece. took a long time since i was shaking my head in disagreement every other line lol

Every one of you that has ever mocked a troop, ever shared that meme about serving crack before serving the country, or otherwise rebuffed the idea of yourself or someone else becoming a troop: your service has been noted.