"It may well be that if we had kept the "draft" we would have had ---as historically we had---citizen soldiers."

Given that the general population hated it almost as much as the military (they're rather have longer term volunteers than reluctant short term draftees any day), the draft as implemented during Viet Nam was a terrible idea.

My firm is working on economic redevelopment projects in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Our people get hazard pay and we hire military civilian contractors to protect them because Coalition Forces aren't able to protect them all the time. As far as I know that's all these people were up to. You guys are obviously thinking something different from the reality we know.

Shai Dorsai!