Would you accept the draft if your country decided to reinstate it?
Would you accept the draft if your country decided to reinstate it?
the USA has it (but dormant as it was last used in the 60s) now, instead part of an automatic register.
The US doesn’t — and has never had — mandatory peacetime service of the “one serves six months or a year or something like that to be trained in military stuff during peacetime”, but if one is male, one does need to register so that in the event of a war where people are called up, one does need to serve then.
It also means that the US has to train people from scratch in a war where it needs them, so has a relatively-long time until it can greatly ramp up its forces if it needed them.