I don’t recall where I had read it, but there was this report about some country in Asia having experimented with this, one time. After a war, they decided to disband the female combat units, based on the recommendations of a post-war inquiry report. What they found was that men in combat lose morale to a much greater extent when they witness female comrade casualties, and on top of that, overall casualties in those units were higher because the male troops would lose focus by attempting to provide cover to their female comrades.
Perhaps someone here can find the actual report and post it.
The North Vietnamese fielded female combat units..they fall just like men from a 50 and 152mm main gun.
I believe it was Israel where the effect on male soldiers of seeing female soldiers killed & wounded was thought to be too much; I may be mistaken, but they’ve had female soldiers for a long time (and have higher expectations of them than we seem to have in the US).
Well, I think you are talking about Israel, who did have women in frontline combat until it came to figure that the Arab men warriors were raised in morale realizing they could kill an all the more unholy enemy, and also kill the more valuable factor in their enemy’s capacity to breed. Not only that, if you are the enemy, you will fight for your life, even if the attacker or the sniper is a woman, you simply won’t care. Fourth, the male soldiers lost their reasoning and tactical effectiveness because the Arabs did exactly as you suggested: demoralized the military and general combat by torturing in gruesome depraved ways and recording it. Nowadays, women do serve in the IDF in support positions such as security, vehicle or aircraft piloting or fixed sniper, where they can be supplied and backed up with support from others generally at all times. Going into the enemy territory is a vastly different matter.
I agree with the poster who said, use women in combat if that involves defending your own homeland from and enemy, and under the condition that you are incredibly depleted of able-bodied men to fight. Because it’s really a last leg in fighting a war, not a first. But honestly, the military coming to this seems like a consequence of invading other countries as opposed to fighting to really defend against our own, as well as the fact that we don’t seem to really be focused on winning, either.