Nifty Nugget - A US experiment with total mobilization

The Canadian Government and senior CAF leadership has proposed a radical initiative of creating a 300,000 personnel strong "Supplemental Reserve" force that could potentially be mobilized in the case of international and domestic crisis.  This is lofty goal for a military that currently struggles to keep a cobbled together international Brigade group deployed.  

In order to anticipate some of the challenges that might be associated with a large mobilization, we might ponder some of the lessons learned almost haft a century ago by the United States and begin to understand just exactly what it means to be willing to put the entire nation on a war footing.