Fiscal Year 2025's National Defense Authorization Act's Senate version contains an important item that is being ignored-young women between the ages of 18-26 will be automatically registered for the draft.
As it stands, all men of age are legally required to register for the draft when they turn 18, and most states automatically register them upon getting a driver's permit, license, renewal of the same, or state ID. Many states also tie registration to access to state largess such as student loans under legislation mirroring the federal Solomon Amendment, or state jobs, similar to the federal Thurmond Amendment.
If this bill becomes law, automatic registration for the draft would be the law of the land in every State, not just for men, but for women as well.
The Austrian School insight that value is subjective holds and thus is non-experimental beyond the inference that because some men hire soldiers and some men volunteer to fill the role, he who voluntarily joins a military sees the subsequent state as superior to his current.
The draft shows the state in its true form, moving men around like so many chess pieces and disregarding their own visions, preferences, and individual rights.
If the state is powerful enough to dragoon men away from their families and career and put them in uniform to fight a foreign war, then the state has grown to be omnipotent.
By automatically registering all young people for conscription, the state also deepens its well of manpower and increases its war-making potential for indeed, a state with more manpower to burn in war will be less likely to steward it.
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