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by King-Aaron 3021 days ago
Honestly asking - surely this isn't something that the United States would seriously consider in this day and age, is it?
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It's unlikely that the military is going to ask for a return to mandatory conscription mechanisms. The main advantage of conscription is that it gives you lots and lots of bodies to throw at a problem, but the quality suffers as a result, particularly since conscription is usually on shorter terms than enlistment (so you spend more of your time in training as opposed to in the field).
The NSA has had a long history recruiting elite cryptographers and keeping secrets from the public.

Given today’s prevailing attitudes towards China and Russia (ie Cold War 2.0),I’m not shocked.

Hackers being involved with the government isn't what surprises me, moreso the consideration of bringing a draft back, after the public backlash from Vietnam. I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?
>I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?

Backlashes are cyclical and sometimes generational - the hippies against the beatniks, the yuppies against the hippies, etc. The current political and cultural zeitgeist in the US seems to be much further right and pro-war than it might have been 40 years ago.