Fears Of A US Draft Grow As The Selective Service Modernizes

As the program that manages the U.S. draft modernizes, commentators are debating whether a potential Draft is around the corner.

The U.S. Selective Service is responsible for managing the U.S. Draft and is currently pushing to modernize the mechanisms that could make the draft a reality, the Military Times reported. As this event is closely timed with an escalation in the Russo-Ukrainian and Iran Wars, some experts have begun debating whether or not a draft could be looming.

The draft could be as soon as “a few years from now,” former Green Beret and war correspondent Michael Yon told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Right now they’re probing and putting it out there to make people used to the idea, like okay, we’re just going to register now,” Yon told the DCNF. “That’s all it is. So they’ve been floating it for a while”

“There is very little prospect for a traditional military draft of the sort the country has relied upon in previous eras,” Peter Feaver, a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University, told the DCNF. “A traditional military draft would hobble the armed services with a logistical nightmare. A scheme of national service, for which service in uniform is one of many options, might be more practicable. I support such a scheme but there is little political momentum even for something like that.”

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

U.S. officials have flirted with the concept of a draft, which could provide the manpower necessary to commit to a U.S.-led invasion of Iran or for support in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

“President Trump, wisely, does not remove options off of the table,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said when asked about the possibility of a draft in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News