US Selective Service System wants to wargame the draft - Selective Service System plans a computer simulation to test how it would carry out a national mobilization of American manpower

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By Michael Peck- Jul 24, 2026, 10:16 AM


Fearing that its new plans for the U.S. military draft pool won’t work, the Selective Service System wants to create a computer simulation to test scenarios for its national mobilization.

The “Readiness Simulation” project comes as the U.S. government is about to change its draft registration system.

Since 1940, men within a designated age range have been required to register with the Selective Service. But under a proposed rule, men aged 18 to 26 will be automatically registered starting Dec. 19, 2026. The Selective Service System will work off data contained in other federal databases.

Questions remain about how prepared the Selective Service System is to handle the change.

“SSS currently relies on manual analysis, legacy modeling approaches, outdated assumptions, and historical datasets that do not fully reflect modern demographics, communications channels, throughput constraints, or operational readiness conditions,” warned the agency in a Request for Quote for the Readiness Simulation tool.

The deadline for vendors to propose their simulation models is Aug. 14.

The computer simulation will explore multiple areas. These include evaluating staffing and resource requirements, comparing mobilization and police scenarios and assessing the operational impact of surge conditions. In addition, the system will “identify throughput risks, delays, and bottlenecks” and support executive planning and reporting obligations.

The goal is a simulation system that “models the full end-to-end SSS mobilization pipeline, supports configurable scenarios, and provides decision-support analytics necessary for leadership, planners, and operators.”

Scenarios will encompass draft registration, selection, notification, delivery and classification. They will also cover the Alternative Service Program, which includes various forms of community service as well as conscientious objectors.

Computer models will “represent MEPS [Military Entrance Processing Stations] throughput, no-shows, medical disqualification rates, claims processing, and ASP diversion,” according to the Request for Quote.

Contractors must be prepared to run the Readiness Simulation while “recognizing that legacy SSS draft data may be outdated or unreliable,” the agency said.

A draft registration system based on data compiled by — and accessed from — other federal agencies is likely to raise privacy concerns.

The computer simulation “shall operate within an SSS-designated cloud environment, use anonymized aggregate data, and support complete Government ownership and sustainment,” the agency said.

The simulation must also comply with multiple privacy regulations.

 

[JosephStalin]

Whoa, thought this was done every couple of years. Bet this is a major-league clusterfuck.

 

[Snack Cracker]

The draft is inhumane and 100% against it.

There’s men who are meant to be soldiers, men who can adapt to being soldiers, and men who cannot be soldiers.

Full Metal Jacket comes to mind when talking about men who cannot be soldiers.

 

[gernig]

reminder that mtf trannies are NOT EXEMPT from selective service! Suffah trannies!

 

[Breadbassket]

The outcome of this can be predicted: the draft will be a massive logistical burden and there will be shortcomings. Both the America and the American military are very different from the last time there was conscription for the United States Armed Forces.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

They are not even hiding the fact Israel runs America and demanding Goy blood anymore.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

And suddenly all those memes and shitposting aren't so funny now, are they kiddos?

 

[George Lucas]

Drafts are a powerful, important tool for total warfare. Volunteers can make a good military, but if SHTF you want an efficient drafting system.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Someone on 4chan broke down all of the draft dodging metrics of Vietnam. Ultimately, it came down to like 1% were ever convicted, and even less ever saw jail time for it. And the rest were eventually given a full blanket pardon. Oh and the draft destroyed the country at a cultural level for like 10 years.

Never say never. But I would be beyond shocked if a draft ever actually happened. Nobody wants a repeat of history.

 

[Zoobles]

The land of the free indeed

 

[The Grognard]

Ideally, the chickenhawks get drafted first so they get to put their money where their mouth is.

 

[TheVoodooThatJewDo]

Drafts are a powerful, important tool for total warfare. Volunteers can make a good military, but if SHTF you want an efficient drafting system.

Or don't throw shit at the fan.

 

[Potion_Time]

It can simulate a draft, but in reality, few would report for service. Some would violently resist, and rightfully so.

So no, there is no realistic scenario where a draft will ever be instituted as there's no realistic scenario where a draft would be successful.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

War, huh?

Good God, y'all.

 

[Meelo]

Let me save the government a few million-billion-zillion-whatever dollars:
In this fine country, there happens to be more guns than people. A good portion of said people who own guns will roll over and take it, sure. Then there's that unknown percentage of non-compliant citizens, radicals, felons, and lunatics that have been waiting for this exact moment, and will happily wait in a bush for 4 hours to ambush a squad of soldiers rolling down the street. Or sabotage vital infrastructure like bridges and electrical substations with homemade explosive devices. Or blast the draft officer with .308 before they even get a chance to knock on the door.
And who's going to be doing this drafting job? The fit combat-ready guys are going to be busy pounding ground in shitholeistan, and the burly meatheads (with their quota hire female "cops") in the police/sheriff's departments don't have the mental capacity to juggle two problems at once. I hope nobody takes their gun, snatches their keys to the patrol car, grabs the rifle and radio, and runs for the hills. That would be horrible and I do NOT endorse that behavior!

 

[TEA 3HF]

 

[TerminalBlueIce]

Someone on 4chan broke down all of the draft dodging metrics of Vietnam. Ultimately, it came down to like 1% were ever convicted, and even less ever saw jail time for it. And the rest were eventually given a full blanket pardon. Oh and the draft destroyed the country at a cultural level for like 10 years.

Never say never. But I would be beyond shocked if a draft ever actually happened. Nobody wants a repeat of history.

Not to be hyperbolic but if they reenact the draft, it will be an absolute shitshow for the country at one of the worst times to do so in a generation. The amount of information military aged males today have been exposed to would blow the minds of your most ardent conspiracy theorists from the Vietnam era. They are all spun up on the Gulf of Tonkin, 9-11, and they were in middle/high school during COVID which permanently cemented an extreme distrust of nearly all levels of government.

The amount of anti-jew anti-establishment apathetic "lets hold hands as we skip along into the apocalypse while we all point and laugh at the Indians" in their social media zeitgeist is something we never thought the internet would bring and "they" have tried their damndest to curtail that mindset from gaining any meaningful foothold but, lo, here we are. Chads and Stacies will get draft notices while Jose and Tyrone will be able to skirt it for whatever trivial brown pdople reasons. The moment Chad and Stacy bodies start coming back from a warzone, it will be the straw that breaks the camels back in this shit economy and Chad and Stacy's cousins Levon and Boudreau will start clandestinely dismantiling power and transportation infrastructure at night and the more adventurous of them will start doing cartel style kidnappings and dismembering of politicians.

Patience for US government fuckery is at an all time low and no matter who is president, the people are all fucking exhausted from getting railroaded from every possible angle and both sides of the political spectrum would be happy to re-water the tree of liberty if you start sending more sons and daughters into the meat grinder for another useless forever war. It's the reason why this whole comflict has been exclusively air missions and nothing else.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Just some more fearmongering shit to try and get people freaked the fuck out. There's not going to be a draft for reasons people have stated in this thread, but naturally MSM is going to get people freaked the fuck out because that is the only way they can get viewership.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

No chink or russki ever called me an alt-right incel.

 

[Potion_Time]

Just some more fearmongering shit to try and get people freaked the fuck out.

I'm more concerned with it being a waste of tax dollars and man power. It doesn't matter who is president at this point, the nations polarization is entrenched and permanent. Military failures are celebrated by opposition parties in the US. See the Republican reaction to the Afghanistan pullout or the Democrat response to the Iran war boondoggle.

So the idea that anybody would show up at the orders of a president or congress they didn't vote for is absurd. Not to mention enforcement is totally impossible. Hell, half the states would help their citizens avoid it based entirely on who the president is.