I take Jules’ title to indicate he was being satirical. The US government is not inclined to institute conscription now and won’t be for the foreseeable future. Advocacy of a draft is the dream of anti-war types who fantasizr about the 60s and who want the USA to be defeated in the War Against the Jihadist Terrorists.
I have always been in favor of a voluntary service military. I am still of that opinion in the current War. Libertarians who rant about “slavery” in reference to conscription are deluding themselves, however. In Western civilization it has always been the case that only free men were allowed to be soldiers. Slaves were not. If they were recruited for fighting they were generally freed. The right to fight was the mark of the free man. So being eligible for conscription is the mark of the free man. So get that slavery nonsense out of your head.
There are certain circumstances where conscription is appropriate for a nation like the USA, in the great wars of the 20th Century when very large forces were needed. Those who say that if not enough people enlist for such a war voluntarily it shows that it ought not to be fought, should simply ask themselves if the triumph of Nazi Germany in WWII would have been acceptable if not enough men volunteered to fight them, because so many people take a “Let George do it” attitude (in economics I believe this is called the “free rider effect”). How would that forward a world of liberty, that libertarians supposedly aspire to? Answer: not at all, and don’t delude yourself otherwise.
