"the realization that those who could not figure out how to evade the draft were not the ideal participnts in technologically sophisticated warfare." I always hoped that were not just true but difficult to fight, but it's not impossible to lower the threshold of skills needed or remove the control from the consequences- cf the gamers who fly remote control drones over Afghanistan from a Nevada airforce base. Not much PTSD from that. We'll need the songs and the marches ongoing, I fear, and I likewise fear that obligatory national service with the military being one option is the only way to get away from the all-volunteer forces who have more at stake in their decision than draftees. The draft enabled but also eventually helped to provoke the end of the Viet Nam lunacy. I know from experience that the only real military offense is Non Belief, and the senior petty officers and mid level officers can ALWAYS tell at 20 paces, and you're in trouble from first day to your last. It is, at least, socially important trouble.
Carter