THE DRAFT IS GOING AUTOMATIC. AND THE GOVERNMENT IS WARGAMING IT RIGHT NOW! Starting December 19, men ages 18 to 26 will be automatically registered for the draft, not by choice and not by mailing in a card like previous generations. The Selective Service System will pull names directly from federal databases. Since the 1940s, draft registration has been something young men had to actively do themselves. Now it happens quietly in the background, built on data people never agreed to hand over for this purpose. The agency is also telling vendors its own tools are outdated, and instead of fixing that first, it is building a “readiness simulation” to test whether the new system even works after automatic registration begins. That simulation is meant to model the full draft pipeline, including registration, selection, notification, delivery, classification, and even what happens when someone refuses. Automatic registration means the government will pull your information from other federal databases without you submitting it yourself. Officials call it “anonymized aggregate data,” but the system is still designed to find specific people and call them up for service. So why now? And why build a national draft model while troops are already coming home wounded from a war that just reopened? @ShannonJoyRadio joins me to discuss this ultimate betrayal.