Paraphrasing Colin Powell: "As long as we have the numbers, no draft"
He just said this on Larry King Live. It went something like: "As long as our volunteer system can generate the numbers of troups that our commanders say they need, there is no need to change it."
One is an economic draft. The overwhelming majority of people join for economic reasons, not patriotism. Face it, practically no one from wealthy families is in the military.
The second is the Stop Loss policy invoked by the military.
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