Rand Corp commissioned to find way to avoid Draft - Daily Kos

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.dailykos.com/

A reliable source tells me that RAND has been contracted by the government to come up with a way to avoid instituting a draft, despite the desperate needs for more combat forces.

The solution? Outsource desk and logistics jobs to private companies while pushing those "chairborne" warriors out of their offices into fighting units.

Logisitic troops make up the vast majority of military personnel (somebody probably has the figure, but it's like 8-1 or 9-1 support to combat forces). The proposal would dramatically increase the number of fighting forces (though many of soldiers in support jobs will have no business being in the front lines), and the Haliburtons of the world would clean up taking over support functions.

One other thought -- female soldiers are generally relegated to non-combat support occupations. Would combat units be opened up to women in this scenario?

[maxsolomon]

1. i am loving it. keep squirming, PNAC fucks.

they know the draft is the second the majority calls bullshit.

should have thought about that before you decided to conquer the planet.

[RamboLiberal]

3. They don't give a Cheney

Their probably upping their stock holdings in Halliburton and other military outsourcing companies.

[jody]

2. The answer is simple, pay salaries high enough to attract volunteers.

Of course that, means increasing the salaries for everyone from E1 to O10 plus retirement benefits. That's pure capitalism at work to make supply equal demand.

:shrug:

[bpilgrim]

4. BRILLIANT IDEA!

put RUMMY, CONDI, CHENNEY, POWELL, etc. and the rest of them DESK-JOCKEYS on the FRONT LINES :bounce:

hmmmm... maybe RAND ain't so bad after all :evilgrin:

peace

[soothsayer]

5. they'll just tell 'em not to call it a draft. they'll call it "fresh air"

or something....

[JohnOneillsMemory]

6. Rangle's reintroduction of a draft bill will hold their feets to the fire.

For the Rebub neo-cons to swat it down again when they really want it is genius. Killing it cooks their own plans for empire. Passing it is political suicide.

Money, meet mouth. Mouth, money. Now get real.

[AP]

7. The draft is the the thing that keeps America from being a fasicst

imperialist nation.

There's no way that middle and upper clas parents will jeopardize their children for a war that is for anything but defending American democracy, and notwithstanding the propaganda job done on Iraq so far, I think lots of Americans are going to see it for what it is if their med-school bound daughter gets drafted.

[Liberty Belle]

8. As the mother of a med-school bound daughter, I'm

terrified--and furious. :grr:

[tanyev]

9. WWARS?

What Would Ayn Rand Say?

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand