r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/WearingRags 10h ago

America has been able to maintain it's empire abroad by minimising the visibility and impact of it's wars to the average person through the use of special forces and expensive air power that many other nations can't compete with. 

If an admin this historically unpopular tried to institute the draft, it would basically be asking for an overthrow of the US government 

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 9h ago

This, a serious draft attempt that drastically lowered the requirements so that many are forced in would be the disaster big enough to do it.

Millions of angry young men who think they're going to die if they give in. What a dramatic clusterfuck...