Originally Posted by astralis

S-2,
1. we don't have enough troops to "do the job",
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however, it's fully possible for an all-volunteer system to at least solve the first problem: to take a simplistic approach, i am pretty sure if the military suddenly decided to double the pay and benefits for every single rank, we would get plenty of volunteers. we did field a far bigger force in the 1980s, and we already had the all-volunteer system in place then.