Space Cadet on Nostr: Without an existing National Service system in the U.K., it’s difficult to predict ...

Without an existing National Service system in the U.K., it’s difficult to predict exactly how a draft would be organised. While the U.S. maintains the Selective Service System that requires the registration of all 18-25 year-old men, and nations with active draft systems like Singapore, Taiwan, and Israel conscript new adults, this may not be the modus operandi of a modern draft. Ukraine has notably not opted for this system. The Ukrainians instead chose a *minimum* age of 27 for draftees and only under pressure from inadequate recruiting have floated the idea of lowering this minimum age to 25. The Western World suffers from top-heavy populations that skew towards mature adults & elderly. There have been too few children to fill the ranks of future workforces much less take massive casualties in peer war. The same number of babies are born each year in the U.S. today as were born in 1955 (around 4 million) despite the U.S. having doubled its 1955 population.