If they ever reintroduce conscription it must include women.
The courts have already decided that Selective Service is unfairly biased against men and must be reformed.
They would do the same with an actual conscription law.
Well they could conscript hundreds of thousands of raw recruits. There would of course be lib-socialist squealing and hand wringing. But unlike the ChiCom- Russian order of warfare that trains their soldiers, sailors and airmen to kill and destroy their enemies, it appears the US military is now preoccupied with proper gender assignments, pronoun usage and accommodating raw recruits that look like 200 lbs of chewed bubblegum.
With the absence of a veteran NCO combat experienced corps, who exactly is going to train these lumpy and likely unmotivated meat sacks? Butter bars fresh out of a woke college ROTC program? 
‘Scuse me while I work on my cynicism. 
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His research of course
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“Science”.
When was the last American war in which most of the enlisted were drafted?
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What metric should be used for “educational achievement”?
Can’t wait
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equity in ignorance is the first step to utopia
obey
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Waiting
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Although, I shall wait. Everyone can take their time.
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I think that is correct. And in the last few decades it isn’t only from Ivy League schools. I have noted that it is pretty common to see Jr.'s name on the list of Vice Presidents of a corporation.
World War II.
Korea and Vietnam mostly consisted of Volunteer enlistment. With a sizable minority of draftees.
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So 70-80’ish years or so since the majority were drafted, and it took Total War to achieve that stat?
The most unpopular war in history had mostly volunteers? 
Yepp. If I remember correctly the number of drafted sent to Vietnam was about 30% or something like that.
The “majority being draftees” was an exaggeration and misdirection perpetrated by the anti-war movement back then that has since stuck in American collective memory about the war.
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The thing is, Americans LOVE fighting, which is perfectly normal. It’s the peacetime that makes people crazy.
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That’s very true. American wars have always had very high official enlistment rates during the active fighting stage. Shockingly high in most cases.
World War I and World War II were the outliers. Although both had extremely high volunteer enlistment rates. It just wasn’t enough to cover all the needs of the military, since those two wars saw the largest number of American men under arms in the country’s history. Plus the army tended to classify World War I volunteers as draftees under the Draft Board system of 1917.
And I think the results in the two world wars had alot to do with just how small the US military was during peacetime back then. When World War II broke out the US Army was smaller than both Portugal and Spain’s armies.
The pre-WWI US army wasn’t much larger than the various revolutionary armies fighting for control of Mexico at that time.
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So what is the best metric, their grades in highschool? The answer would be no. As someone who spent time in education I can tell you that there’s no real consistency from school to school or from teacher to teacher. Furthermore, the bigger problem is with cheating.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you about the SAT, but there’s no perfect metric out there that could ever be fully equitable that I can think of. Personally I think if higher education - highschool/college - were largely career based that could be a step in the right direction. I absolutely don’t like the idea of importing doctors, engineers and scientists from overseas.
Look at the children of politicians and the different careers they get into. I said this before that if we could get every American a position in the Congress for at least some amount of time we and our families could all become rich!
Yes, but that’s not unique to large/prestigious schools. Most private colleges have a preference for children of Alumni, particularly of Alumni who donate.
It was a gamble. Moving to the middle-class neighborhood didn’t make the girl any smarter and being middle class didn’t make her new classmates any dumber. Top 10% is still the top 10%.
