Compulsory female registration for the draft

[Hortensis]

42. In my world they would be. :) Non-citizens could volunteer.

If fighting for one's country were rare and almost always only when needed, it would be considered an honor. And IMO that's how it should be.

One problem with this rosy picture of much less war is that many on the far right -- and some anti-democracy types on the far left determined to drag people kicking and screaming if necessary into their version of a better world -- would be that some people would always be easy to convince war was necessary.

Look at all the people who are distressed that we didn't invade Iran -- nationalist conservatives who seriously believe negotiating is a form of surrender. Many of those people would sacrifice and sign up in their forties to "save" America from the "Others."

It'd be up to the great liberal-to-moderate-conservative spectrum to stop them -- and in the past civilization has failed a bunch of times when the illiberal far left and reactionary right join together.