should women be drafted Options

[princess2113]

should women be drafted to war?

[ComradeRed]

I saw Starship Troopers earlier. First of all, I think that it sheds alot of insight into the draft and military society in general.

A society with the draft: Like the movie. They send 1,000,000 tiny little footsoldiers with guns taht are like weaker than M-16s against giant bugs. Lots of them die, and the government becomes tyrannical.

A society without the draft: Like America. If we had to fight giant bugs, and we had the technology that they had in the movie, but we only had 100,000 soldiers, we would put them all in the space ships and bomb the hell out of the bug planet from orbit -- many less casualties.

This is true--- in EVERY twentieth century war fought between a primarily volunteer and a primarily drafted army, the volunteer army has proven more reliable, taken fewer casualties, and achieved more efficient results than the drafted army.

In every country where the number of drafted soldiers made up a majority of the army, the only exception being Great Britain in WWI, the government doing the drafting was either overthrown by the soldiers it drafted, overthrown by a foreign power, or severly weakened to the point of near-collapse.