MONDAY PDB – Group of senators introduces bill to end military draft. A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation to end the military draft, calling it an “outdated” government program that no longer serves a purpose.
The bill, introduced Thursday by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), would repeal the Military Selective Service Act, commonly known as the draft. First passed in 1917 to fill the ranks during World War I, the law requires all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 45 to register for possible military service, but it has not been used since the Vietnam War.
“It has been over 50 years since the draft was last used,” Paul said in a statement on the bill. “I’ve long stated that if a war is worth fighting, Congress will vote to declare it and people will volunteer. This outdated government program no longer serves a purpose and should be eliminated permanently.”
The legislation comes as Congress once again debates the expansion of the draft given the Defense Department opened all combat roles to women in 2015. Senate Democrats this year added language to the annual defense authorization bill to require women to register for the draft, prompting a backlash from Republicans and social conservatives.
A measure to compel women to register for potential service has continuously been stripped out of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) year after year, most recently in 2021 and 2022.
CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT WE MAY BE INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE MAJOR WARS SOON, THIS DRAFT BILL IS RECKLESS AND STUPID.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense stories from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:
NATIONAL SECURITY
WATCH – Expert panel say US is unprepared for a major war.
GOP Rep. Perry knocks US-Russia prisoner swap: ‘Like trading a rifle for a spoon.’ Rep. Scott Perry R-Pa. criticized the recent prisoner swap with Russia in an interview Friday.
SOUNDS CHEAP TO ME – DO IT! – Air Force says restoring nukes on some 30 B-52s would cost $4.5 million.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Let’s start treating cyber security like it matters. When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such body to investigate the recent major cyber failure that ensnared banks, airlines, and emergency services and cost billions of dollars. We need one.
POLITICS
JD Vance’s Marine buddies back his service over his politics. Critics call his about-face on Trump an affront to the military’s most basic values. His friends say attacks on his service are out of bounds.
9/11 victims’ families feel whiplash over plea deal reversal. The horrible plea deal unveiled this week for three men accused of plotting the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, had outraged Jim Smith by removing the death penalty. But Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s surprise move late Friday to scrap the agreement didn’t comfort him much, either.
US POWER OVERSEAS
WAR IS COMING – US to boost military presence in Middle East amid growing tensions. It will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region.
BIDEN-HARRIS FAILURE – US to depart second and final base in Niger this week, nearly ending months-long withdrawal from what was once a vital partner in the fight against terrorism.
Navy forward-deploys stealth F-35C fighters, CMV-22B tilt rotor Ospreys to Iwakuni, Japan. This, to maintain security efforts in the Indo-Pacific region.
Guam slated to homeport its first Virginia-class fast-attack submarine. The Navy is beefing up its submarine squadron on Guam in the coming months by homeporting one of the service’s most advanced subs there.
Shifting the US-Japan alliance from coordination to integration. This week, Tokyo hosted the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, which brought together the two countries’ defense and foreign ministers. This 2+2 meeting had unusual importance: accelerating the shift from coordination to integration.
ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST TERROR
THIS TIME THINGS MAY BE MUCH WORSE – Israel working with US, UK as retaliatory strike from Iran looms. This, setting the stage for a repeat of a similar attack by Tehran in April that was repelled by Israel and its allies.
Death of Hamas chief draws mixed reactions in war-battered Gaza. For many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was one of them. For others, not so much.
CHINA THREAT
Taiwan is readying citizens for a Chinese invasion. It’s not going well. The government extended mandatory military service and revamped reservist training in an effort to make Beijing think twice. But it’s already falling short.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Ukraine watches warily as prisoner swap shows Moscow and West can negotiate. After a landmark prisoner deal showed Moscow and Washington can still do business, Kyiv said it would hold Joe Biden to his promise: ‘Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.’
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy displays newly arrived F-16 fighter jets to combat Russia in the air.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Voices across the globe express concern over increasing arrests in Venezuela after disputed election.
MEXICO IS A FAILED NARCO-STATE ON OUR BORDER – Mexican army acknowledges for first time that some of its soldiers have been killed by cartel bomb-dropping drones.
Nationalist protesters attack hotel housing asylum seekers in violent weekend. Anti-immigrant demonstrations across Britain descended into violence over the weekend, including clashes with riot police outside the hotel, following a mass stabbing that killed three children at a dance class last week.
After drone interceptions, Rafael hopes to take Israel’s maritime Iron Dome global. C-Dome systems have been installed on the Sa’ar 6s, Israel’s most advanced corvettes, since the ships came online in December 2020. They’ve performed well enough, including in recent combat related to Gaza operations, that the firm is looking abroad to other “tier one” navies as potential customers.
US MILITARY
As recruiting rebounds, Army to expand basic training, rebuild for modern warfare.
Burnout vs. mission: How long, tough deployments could affect Navy retention and recruitment. Extended, high-pace deployments may impact how the sea service retains and recruits personnel.
Army’s long-range tiltrotor aircraft moves to next development phase. It is moving out of technology development and into the critical engineering and manufacturing development phase.
Air Mobility Command tries AI to speed up airlift planning. While some worry about “killer robots,” others are quietly working on artificial intelligence tools for something far more likely to help win the next war: logistics.
Commander of the 28th Operations Group at Ellsworth Air Force Base fired following scathing accident report into B-1B Lancer crash. The report last week blamed the training culture for contributing to the accident.
Attorney says Air Force’s CV-22 Osprey accident report ‘adds to the deep pain’ of Gold Star families by unfairly blaming crew. The report also notes that the crash was primarily due mechanical failure.
WATCH – Hang it … fire! Watch soldiers at Camp Ripley fire live mortar rounds.
VA expands burn pit registry to include all Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. This, as well as any veterans of the Middle Eastern, African and Asian nations on a newly expanded list.
END of PDB
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The draft serves its purpose in time of war or “police action”. If all goes well it is not needed during peacetime BUT you don’t have time to run a bill through Congress after the shooting has started. As long as the rule is on the books it can be used quickly when needed.
WTF is wrong with these politicians? Our country is literally disintegrating right before our eyes and they are wasting their time on cutesy bs bills like this. I have always supported Rand Paul but this is crazy.
Actually it would be great if ALL Americans upon turning 18 or dropping out of high school were required to serve two years either in the military, national guard, peace corp, government health agencies, government law enforcement agencies etc to provide them with a basic job skill, doing good for others, possible career tracks, basic income with health care benefits and a great reference for their future. Plus it would make America Strong and keep our federal agencies staffed in case of any emergencies.
That there is effectively no draft, even tho it is still on the books, is the exact reason why America is so divided: only a relative handful of volunteers have an actual life and death stake in America! This is unconscionable. All able-bodied people, including women, must have a stake in their own country. It does not have to be combat duty – as more than not, probably, would not qualify for it – but there must be some kind of national service that all citizens are required to do – as we have in Israel. The majority, including women, go to the defense forces in all the aspects of military service. both combat and non-combat, but most of the rest do their national service by working in hospitals, schools, MADA (our Red Cross), and other organizations that help others, etc. This giving to our country in any way we are able, unites us in a way that nothing else can!
That there is effectively no draft, even tho it is still on the books, is the exact reason why America is so divided: only a relative handful of volunteers have an actual life and death stake in America! This is unconscionable. All able-bodied people, including women, must have a stake in their own country. It does not have to be combat duty – as more than not, probably, would not qualify for it – but there must be some kind of national service that all citizens are required to do – as we have in Israel. The majority, including women, go to the defense forces in all the aspects of military service. both combat and non-combat, but most of the rest do their national service by working in hospitals, schools, MADA (our Red Cross), and other organizations that help others, etc. This giving to our country in any way we are able, unites us in a way that nothing else can!