Ep 150: Katherine Kuzminski on the Draft

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Katherine Kuzminski, Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at CNAS, joins the show to discuss recruiting and mass mobilization in the event of war.

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Times

• 01:33 Introduction

• 02:08 Why worry about mobilization?

• 03:54 Meeting the threshold

• 06:58 Low yield

• 11:37 A loss of identity

• 15:42 Aging up

• 21:38 The Russian model

• 23:55 Israeli lessons

• 26:38 Working with what we have

• 32:05 Infantry concerns

• 35:05 Women in the draft

• 39:12 Deterrent value

• 41:20 Sustaining industry

• 43:45 An “I” society

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