What is Reddit's opinion of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power?

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> Or maybe, and I know this sounds crazy but hear me out.... we make things equal by ending the draft period.

Completely disagree. The draft ensures that the general population is involved in military conflict by having skin in the game (their kids). It forces the electorate to wake up and consider the cost of what the government is proposing to do. Executive and Congressional action since the end of the Vietnam War have reduced and circumvented the use of the draft. Post Vietnam the draft was seen as 1 piece of a layer of preventative measures to prevent the executive and congress from sending people to war without good cause, but it started getting dismantled right away.

Rachel Maddow has a great book on this if you're interested in learning more.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005BUG6T8

I'll clean up my ramblings and finish my train of thought when I have time tonight. I'll also do my best to find the most relevant articles to demonstrate each point while I'm at it.

As far as books go, the one that I recommend the most is Rachel Maddow's Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. In it, she lays out the history of how our military became a feeding frenzy for private contractors and the consequences to both the military and government in general. Maddow kept it short and sweet by staying at a pretty high altitude in terms of details. I think she really hit the mark on that balance because it's incredibly informative while also being a fast read that didn't get boring for me. I also happen to like her style of humor so I found it funny but YMMV there.

edit: I was accused of being a shill the last time I recommended Drift on reddit. As a pre-emptive attempt to avoid trollbait, let me go ahead and state that I'm in no way affiliated with the book in anyway; I have absolutely no connection to Maddow, the publisher, printer, MSNBC, or any voices you would-be trolls hear in your heads.