Hmm, maybe it’s just me, but part of me has started counting down the days until they decide to forcibly “remedy” falling recruitment numbers?
Even if they don’t bring back the draft outright, you could see a “suspicious surge” in young people charged for violating some arcane law down the line that’s impossible to know about and shouldn’t be there in the first place (and, of course, being given the choice between prison or military service once convicted). After all, the legal system doesn’t care whether you know the law or not (regardless of how obscure or unreasonable it is!), so I think that could be a potential springboard for pressing ”troubled youths” into service, twenty or thirty-some years from now.