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I haven't looked into it, but it sounds plausible. As recently as Bush there was at least some Republican connection to the military. Its always a bit tempting to think how things are now has been how its always been.

I'm coming to this a little late, so I might be missing earlier context, but it seems like he's more discussing the specific motivation, rather than corporate structure. Wagner for example is a PMC, but I get the sense a lot of them join partially out of a loyalty to Russia, though the higher...

I mean, I'm answering the question of plausible non-peer reasons the Federal government might need conscription. There's quite a wide variety of plausible scenarios: non-peer wars take potentially huge numbers of soldiers, possibly more than some peer conflicts might need. The Federal...

An Iraq war done properly. Iraq had a population of 40 million. By the standard rule of thumb of 1 soldier to 40 civilians, the occupation force should have been roughly 1 million. Instead total occupation force, including non-Iraqi allies was closer to 200k. If Mexico actually became a failed...