{"id":4055,"date":"2026-07-31T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:07:20","slug":"fears-of-a-us-draft-grow-as-the-selective-service-modernizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"Fears Of A US Draft Grow As The Selective Service Modernizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As the program that manages the U.S. draft modernizes, commentators are debating whether a potential Draft is around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4053\">Kathy Hochul Wants To Make You Jump Through Hoops When Purchasing Guns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The draft could be as soon as \u201ca few years from now,\u201d former Green Beret and war correspondent Michael Yon told the Daily Caller News Foundation. <strong>(RELATED: 1984 Has Arrived, And People Are Fighting Back)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now they\u2019re probing and putting it out there to make people used to the idea, like okay, we\u2019re just going to register now,\u201d Yon told the DCNF. \u201cThat\u2019s all it is. So they\u2019ve been floating it for a while\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is very little prospect for a traditional military draft of the sort the country has relied upon in previous eras,\u201d Peter Feaver, a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University, told the DCNF. \u201cA 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump, wisely, does not remove options off of the table,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said when asked about the possibility of a draft in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. \u201cIt\u2019s not part of the current plan right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody is seriously considering a draft,\u201d Jason Dempsey, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told the DCNF. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely not politically palatable, and the distance between where we are now and actually executing a draft is, it\u2019s almost in the realm of the impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. draft has emerged in U.S. headlines as the Selective Service System put out a request for a quote with a deadline of Aug. 14, seeking a simulation that aims to see what a U.S. draft could look like in a digital age.<\/p>\n<p>The request calls for the simulation to recreate a full mobilization pipeline, use anonymous data, support \u201cconfigurable scenarios,\u201d and support \u201ccomplete Government ownership and sustainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is little [to] no chance of reinstating the draft. There is no need. Except for occasional lows in recruitment, mostly tied to bad policies, we usually have to turn people away,\u201d Heritage Foundation Visiting Fellow and former Pentagon official Steven Bucci told the DCNF. \u201cThey are simply not needed. If someone mistakenly passed such a change, it would hopelessly cripple our present highly technical and highly motivated forces with lots of kids that had neither the skills nor desire to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4051\">Court Deals Final Blow To Blue State\u2019s Crackdown On Therapists Helping Kids Accept Their Gender<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Selective Service System\u2019s fiscal 2027  has a budget increase up to $32.3 million, from the $31.3 million fiscal 2026 level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had a very significant drop-off in the recruiting age population of 18 to 22, generally seen as a result of the economic downturn and crisis of 2008 when people just stopped having kids for a little while,\u201d Dempsey told the DCNF. \u201cThe most likely thing you\u2019re going to see is the military will continue to drop standards for recruitment. There are many levers we pulled before the draft. That includes waiving high school graduation requirements \u2026 more waivers for previous drug use or criminal backgrounds that would otherwise disqualify them, but we\u2019ll give waivers so those people can join.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yon pointed out that the new digital surveillance and financial infrastructure throughout America could be used to enforce a draft with ease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could make it impossible to lead any normal life. You\u2019re not going to be able to go to the gym or go to school, go to church or whatever, drive down the road. Those [Flock Safety] cameras,\u201d Yon told the DCNF. \u201cI mean, you\u2019d get scarfed up. Because you know, if they have a draft and you don\u2019t answer the draft, you could be deemed a criminal and you could be picked up at any traffic stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A law signed by President Donald Trump on Dec. 18, 2025, will \u201cautomatically register all men ages 18-26, effective December 19, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida has already used a similar system for years. Florida State law requires the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to transmit registration information to the Selective Service when an eligible man ages 18 through 25 applies for or renews a driver\u2019s license or state identification card, while applicants younger than 18 are notified that they will be registered upon turning 18. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longer part of this discussion, or the more relevant part, is Ukraine,\u201d Dempsey told the DCNF. \u201c[It] does have some relevance. And everything that has been happening over there the last five years, right? Everybody\u2019s watching that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yon pointed out the actions of the Ukrainian Territorial Recruitment Center, where individuals are grabbed from the streets to be sent to the frontlines. Dozens of videos have been uploaded to X depicting what this looks like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve seen what they\u2019re doing in Ukraine?\u201d Yon said. \u201cHave you seen the videos dragging guys off streets? So I mean, they could easily do that in the United States, and I suspect they will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4049\">Democrats Watch As Well Dries Up, Walls Around Them Begin To Crack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Selective Service is moving to update the mechanism that it would use to initiate a draft for the U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3587,82,3588,184],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-draft","tag-iran-war","tag-u-s-army","tag-u-s-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fears Of A US Draft Grow As The Selective Service Modernizes - 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