The draft notices have been sent out: Why this isn't yet a mobilization—and why it's already too late to stop it

I received a draft notice—as someone who completed my military service a long time ago. Not my son, nor my nephew, who is of draft age. Since mid-October, these notices have been arriving en masse, and they’re being sent to people who haven’t been thought of in years. Let’s take a dispassionate look: what this means under the law, why the government needs to know everything about reservists right now, why we shouldn’t expect a high-profile announcement—and what six signs reveal what’s really going on. Two of them have already come to pass.