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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
If you're in the US, this is not a problem. You can *think* it's your only option, but as US citizens there is no Draft or forced conscription.

In fact, there are quite a lot of well written and justified papers written by political scientists pointing out that getting rid of the Draft allowed politicians to engage in wars without needing the approval of the general US citizen public.

Forced conscription means everyone, including the rich, have to worry about their kids being sent to fight in a war. In the case of the rich, this is represented by having to spend a lot of money and time figuring out a way to keep their sons out of the military. Money they would rather invest in other things.

Interestingly, even in Israel which has forced conscription, there are now so many reasons to escape military service, *most young people don't serve*. They conscript women too, on paper, but most of the time women are allowed to avoid military service.

Note how Israel has moved away from the 1990s Oslo Peace Accords, back when almost no one could avoid military service, to a much more hawkish government, now that most Israelis can avoid military service. Ending or effectively ending forced conscription leads to governments becoming more hawkish because they don't have to answer to citizens with more influence.
gpt
I could be mistaken, but the conscription in Israel is for national service, and the military is one option for that but it is not the only one. Source: several female friends who did national service but not the military.