I'm wondering how you think "lean left" will affect the answers to your question.

No one has been drafted since January 1973, since that time we have seen a drop off in the diversity of the military. I not only believe we should have a system of conscription, I believe it ought to be a mandatory 2 year term for all citizens and want to be citizens. That service could be in several different areas of public, international (think peace corp), military or even local governmental service. But it should be for all people with only a few exceptions for those with disabilities so severe that they require a caregiver. a person should be able to fill this requirement at anytime between 18 and 26 and we should provide trade school/college upon completion.

We used the draft many decades ago because we were sending an obscene number of military into a war we shouldn't have been in, and we ran out of career military. Hopefully, this will not happen again for either gender.

However, I'm a believer in mandatory national service for everyone, preferably right after high school, for a year or two. No exemptions for heel spurs.

Draft? What draft.....?

We haven't had the draft since the 70s. I was drafted. It is a horrible idea. Forcing people to fight and die in unjustifiable wars. We haven't been in a justifiable or necessary war since WWll. Completely immoral. Rich people and sons of members of Congress did not get drafted. Terrible idea.

Personally I like the idea of 2 year mandatory military service for All young adults after high school no exceptions..Though considering Amurikkka love of sending it's poor/working class children off to war on a regular basis it's a bad idea...

We don't have a draft, I was drafted and it's inhuman but if you draft then do everyone, some women want to go into combat,let them but it should be a choice

I am old fashioned enough to think that young women are too valuable to society to be sent into combat, but they could certainly help a war effort in many other ways. Those few who insist on fighting with rifles and grenades, let ‘em have at it.

Old women are worth no more than old men. When they are old would be the time to turn’em into infantry soldiers, construction workers, commercial fishers, loggers and the like.

Enact the Equal Rights Amendment.

Then you can draft both sexes.

Right now we're still not first class citizens and our rights are being taken away in many States - so I'm voting no on this until we're equal.

Frankly I don't want to see anyone drafted into another war. Let's do away with that too.

It is used for both sexes in Israel. Some in the UK think it might be a good idea to re-introduce it but for some form of community service rather than the military.
Much as it was loathed at the time. The draft was at least more class and racially equal. Buying your way into the national guard or arranging to have bone-spurs notwithstanding.