But the modern, super-selective draft is different. Though armed forces are having to refocus on territorial defense, they don’t need soldiers for trenches. As Šapkinaitė pointed out, they need highly skilled young men and women who can be trusted with expensive high-tech equipment.
I don't agree that in "modern warfare" (whatever that is) the major requirement is for highly skilled young people able to operate sophisticated equipment.
Certainly there is a need for people like this, but when you look at wars going on around the world (and there are plenty to look at), they are still ultimately being fought on the ground by young men engaged in the age old business of killing each other, usually with a rifle, and sometimes even in hand to hand fighting.
Anyone who thinks that warfare is just going to be operating keyboards from now on is just deluding themselves