The report sits in plain sight: the Selective Service System is seeking a "Readiness Simulation" to war-game the machinery of a draft, testing selection, notification and processing under emergency conditions, months before automatic registration of American men 18 to 26 begins in December.
No draft has been ordered.
Agencies stress-test the things they think they might need.
Karen Kwiatkowski, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, reads it against this week's map: Iranian missiles into Jordan, Ukrainian strikes on Iranian ships in the Caspian, a US carrier group steaming into the South China Sea while munitions run thin everywhere.
Her verdict on the shape of things:
"It looks like World War I, the beginnings."
Alliances forming, borders going fluid, separate wars finding each other.
And her warning lands on the draft pool itself.
Roughly 70 PERCENT of Americans oppose this war by the polling she cites, and the generation that would be called has no appetite for a fight whose objective nobody in Washington can state.
Nobody in 1914 knew it was 1914 until it was over.
@karen4the6th @WeTheBrandon
