There's no doubt in my mind, doing away with the draft was one of the costliest decisions this country has made.
For there is no way it would be so easy to get involved and stay involved in conflict for so many years if not for the absence of conscript service.
The American people are far too removed from wars being fought... having friends and relatives in service would have stopped them in their tracks by now...
... with only 0.5 percent of Americans in the military (compared with 8.6 percent during World War II), we have relatively few witnesses to the butchery of soldiers and civilians who can come home to tell their stories.... we don’t know war up close....
...'skin in the game.'
America in the Hands of a Professional Military | Truthout
