Will there be a draft?

While Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush have repeatedly said there is no need for a draft, and one of the military’s top recruiters said only last week that a draft ‘would not improve the quality’ of soldier, Delaware Online reports that several well-known conservatives and moderates sent congressional leaders a letter in January that said, “the United States military is too small for the responsibilities we are asking it to assume.”

The US Army is beginning to face the same sort of recruiting problems that have already plagued the National Guard and Reserve, The Washington Post reported Monday. Since the Army’s fiscal year began last October, it has only signed 18.4 percent of its target of 80,000 new recruits. That’s less thanlast year’s and well below the 25 percent target the Army had set for itself to meet by this time.

“Very frankly, in a couple of places our recruiting pool is getting soft,” said Lt. Gen. Franklin L. Hagenbeck, the Army’s personnel chief. “We’re hearing things like, ‘Well, let’s wait and see how this thing settles out in Iraq,’ “ he said in an interview. “For the active duty for ’05 it’s going to be tough to meet our goal, but I think we can. I think the telling year for us is going to be ’06.”

While Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush have repeatedly said there is no need for a draft, and one of the military’s top recruiters said only last week that a draft ‘would not improve the quality’ of soldier, Delaware Online reports that several well-known conservatives and moderates sent congressional leaders a letter...

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