Joe Plenzler, a retired combat decorated Marine lieutenant colonel who served as the strategic advisor for communication to three successive Commandants of the Marine Corps from 2010 to 2015, penned an op-ed at Military.com last week in which he called for a “limited military draft.”
Plenzler says “It's time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.”
I get it. The military is unable to even come close to meeting its targets for recruitment, off by 20 to 30 percent in every branch except the Marines, which is struggling as well but might just barely make its goals this year.
My guess is that the last thing Biden would do is reinstate the draft now, given that we are entering an election year. But with the neoconservative warmongers who run Washington itching to get into a war with Russia, they will definitely need a draft soon and are probably planning to start one up shortly after the November 2024 election.
Plenzler notes that today, the military needs only about 160,000…
