Let’s analyze the countries which have women in combat roles, shall we?
Israel doesn’t count. They wouldn’t have women in such positions if it wasn’t absolutely necessary seeing as they’re invaded every year by some cadre of Jihadists.
Eritrea is a third-world sh&thole people brave minefields to escape from.
No surprises in North Korea. The Dear Marshal will throw out any human fodder he can find.
Romania, not exactly a military model. Have they won a war in the last two hundred years? Along with a collection of EU and EU aligned socialist republics, sorely lacking any morality, and very much spoiled by US military presence.
As for Canada and Australia, I am surprised. Not so much by Australia. Any nation that would elect Gillard has walked off the European cliff already, but Canada. Disappointing, guys.
It’s wrong for any nation to put women in the same combat roles as men. It is yet another attempt to create equality where none can ever exist, and impedes on military operation, efficiency, and undermines centuries of proud tradition. Just as only a woman can serve a role as a mother, only a man can serve a role as a front line soldier.
Notice that the vast majority of African countries (exclude the Muslim ones for a second), which are rife with civil war and corruption, torture, child soldiers, often times genocide or mass killing, even they do not go as far as to put women in the position of male soldiers. Even supposedly equal Red China doesn’t practice this! Can we hold ourselves to at least that standard.
No, obviously not. Because we have a Leninist usurper in the White House, and a dried up salamander in the Pentagon.
what kind of argument is that? Ignore the facts that are inconvenient and harp on others? Of course Isreal counts. Women do very well in the Israeli military - and standards are not lowered because of their inclusion.
Women have been in battle throughout the centuries - It's no accident that Mars was God of War, but Mathematics, Logic, and Battle Strategy belonged to a woman-- the Goddess Minerva. Roman generals made offerings to Minerva before a battle, because they really, really wanted to win.
Actually, we've never elected Gillard in Australia. She originally became Prime Minister when her party changed leaders in an internal vote, and though she held onto power at the 2010 election, it was as a leader of a minority government and only because two conservative independents betrayed their constituencies (a third joined them in giving her power, but he only did so after it became clear the other two doing so had rendered a conservative government numerically impossible and he decided better to support Labor than render the country ungovernable).
But in terms of Australian women serving in combat, yes, that's a Gillard initiative, announced in late 2011 to try and counter a sex scandal at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Women now have the legal right to serve in frontline combat roles from 2016 onwards - it hasn't happened yet, and if the polls are correct, we'll have a conservative government again before the end of the year, which will 'review the decision'.