In the villages of Afghanistan, women can go places, hear things, and do things men cannot, like pat down and control the women and children while their men are being interrogated and searched.
They are needed on the “battlefields” of what are today’s “wars, in fact have been servingn on them without receiving the official designator of serving in “combat” (or receiving combat pay, or training)
I didn't get the memo that the US has morphed into an Ashcan village.
Do women have a role?
Yes.
On the battle field, NO!