We had hundreds of thousands of troops fighting a ground war in Iraq just a few years ago. Not just spec ops, but standard Army and Marine infantry, tank, and artillery units. Unless you were holed up like the Unabomber, I can't imagine how you could possibly have missed that.
I've been to too many funerals of combat Marines in the last decade plus to accept your bizarre contention that it just doesn't happen anymore because it isn't Normandy or Inchon.
and about 1/3 of those troops were women and we did just fine. I don’t know how you could have missed that. The MOS that were/are restricted to males is failry small in the overall military.
The “ship has sailed” regarding women serving in the US military, and it is not going back to port. The way large scale military operations are now planned and waged, the technology we use, is unisex based on brains, fitness and will to serve. Yeah we still have the big OPlans for invasions and amphibious landings etc. But as we showed in DESERT STORM and again in 2003 and after, we don’t need an all male force to carry them out.
Nor might I argue do we HAVE the high number of capable males to do so.. Every time I see a teenage kid arguing about his right to be smoking pot I don’t want HIM in my military. Now on that, I am old school
Did my time. Said my piece here. Done.