House passes defense bill automatically registering men ages 18-26 for draft

And that's especially true if "things really kick off with China", since that will go nuclear almost instantly.

There's little point to this bill, except to acknowledge that our wildly outdated notion of a draft also has wildly outdated technology. We haven't actually needed to make people sign themselves up for decades. That information is readily available and it can be done automatically.

Not that it needs to be done at all. We should eliminate it entirely. Or, if they insist on keeping it, to update it to include women -- another wildly outdated aspect of our 19th-century draft system.