when I was a young man in my 20s I would of said it was a good Idea. today at 55 I say it is a bad idea. combat is a mans world putting women in that world is a mistake. I believe this to the point where I don’t think women should be allowed to serve in any direct combat roles. I find it weird to say the older I get the more sexist I am and the more I value traditional roles for men and women. I think that the idea of drafting young women is highly destructive to the welfare of the United States.
Draftees are crap soldiers, imagine how bad a pink haired draftee like the abrasive Soccer player would be. Imagine having to serve next to that in a hotzone. No thanks if I can’t have a good ole country boy who has been shooting since they could hold a gun up and have to take a progressive I’d rather have a don’t ask don’t tell volunteer than a forced gen Z “female” next to my foxhole.
If we ever have a draft again, I agree with you on not allowing women into direct combat.
But for every man with a weapon in Indian country, there are 10 or 15 people, in uniform, to support him. Some of these support people may get into combat, but many will never hear the sound of gun fire in their tours of duty.
Drafting women to fill the support functions necessary in the modern Army makes reasonably good sense to me. This frees up man power to feed into battle.
Too many Americans don’t understand the next war. There are 1.5 billion Chinese and 300 million Americans. Every citizen who can fight will need to.
They don't have to be drafted into combat. Medical and administrative would do just fine. Some skin in the game, at least on paper, is the issue here.
I agree that women in combat, especially forward positions as opposed to last-ditch defense, is a bad idea. So are sex-integrated combat units.
Just last night I watched a YouTube on how Nazi troops treated Russian women who were in the military. The lucky ones were shot outright. Women prisoners of the Taliban better hope their male comrades off them so they don’t have to do it themselves.
You don’t grasp the reality
A skilled woman in Nevada can loose hell fire missiles from a done flying surepitously in Syria.
We learned that a drone vehicle carrying a small automatic rifle killed the head Iranian nuclear scientist. The drone operator probably from Mossad, was not in Iran. I could have been a skilled woman pulling the virtual trigger from Ft Bragg.