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Women fight better honey...that's really the bottom line militarily...and they distract the men whther you like it or not ....and in ways other than simply sex alone.

Societally...I don't know what they are teaching you at your women's studies classes but the damage to society having women entrenched in the conventional military is far reaching and has been expounded to death here.

There is a reason that hardly any civilized nation has ever done so and it's not because of male opression as some would have you believe. Real oppression would be men forcing women to fight as fodder while they stayed home and got fat. Everyone knows it's a bad idea from every angle regardless of how good a girl is at video games. You have not stumbled upon some epiphany.

I have lived in some civil war zones around the globe from West Africa to Latin America and Haiti. I never saw women in any significant numbers in any militias or technical units or insurgency or government forces. A few for support, medical, translation, and espionage (the Sandies loved that). These were incredibly brutal and dark places but even they knew better.

We have a VOLUNTEER military. There are far fewer female volunteers. So I really don't think women in the larger scale are clamoring to get in the military, much less combat. The argument is largely moot in that respect.

As long as we have qualified women volunteering, we would be tacktically wise to use those who do volunteer to their best ability. Those who aren't useful should be turned away. Ditto for men who volunteer. I would hope we don't accept anyone who shows up regardless if they are useful.