Women have always been in the military, as cooks, washer women, nurses, supply and camp followers “Hookers” They just—with a few exceptions—didn’t fight. When Mehamed II captured Constantinople—in the final attack—all fought, women too. Many cases of prostitutes with the French Foreign Legion picked up arms when outposts were attacked by Riff tribesmen in North Africa. Attempts to form combat units with women has not worked well for the USSR and Israel. Women have done well as pilots and in the many office roles in the Modern armed forces. In truth, women are too important to risk in combat.
This is my understanding as well.
In truth, women are too important to risk in combat.
And that last is a point that has long been forgotten. A nation needs people in order to be strong, and women are the only ones that can fill that need.
Societies have gone for thousands of years protecting the women because they create the next generation, without which no country can survive.
This business of deliberately putting them at risk is a modern bunch of foolishness. It is contrary to human nature. I believe one of the reasons the Israelis have discovered as to why putting women into combat units is a bad idea is because the men would do stupid things in order to protect them.
They would take unnecessary risks, and this would end up getting more men killed than would have occurred otherwise.