Should Women Soldiers Serve in Combat?

Should Women Soldiers Serve in Combat?
By Joel Hilliker Friday, May 12, 2006



The majority of Americans say no—but whether or not they realize it, it is the reality of the modern battlefield. Does it help military effectiveness, or cripple it?

The single most transformative change in the United States military over the past century—particularly the past generation—has been the massive expansion of the woman’s role.

Has this helped the effectiveness of America’s forces? The official line is yes—or, at least, that it certainly hasn’t hurt. Whether or not you believe that, the metamorphosis of America’s all-male warrior military into an almost completely sex-integrated force has only occurred because of a lot of buried facts, wishful thinking, duplicity, doublespeak and deliberate deceit.

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The number of women accepting more-combat-related jobs is just a fraction of the number of such jobs that have been made available to them. By and large, they don’t want those jobs. Army surveys show that 85 to 90 percent of enlisted women strongly oppose policies aimed at thrusting women into combat. The drive to open those positions to women has come from a small group of hard-core careerist women and feminist civilian leaders.

In essence, the feminist dream is to see women viciously tortured and killed alongside men.

Sally Quinn wrote in the Washington Post, “If we can’t win a war without our mothers, what kind of a sorry fighting force are we? Even the evil Saddam Hussein doesn’t send his mothers to fight his war.” Some see women warriors as a sign of progressiveness. In truth, it is a sign of barbarity.

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This has been a hot topic of debate for sometime now and here are my thoughts on the issue.

1. I'm not in favor of women having a role in combat that is up close and personal.

2. However given the Services difficulty in filling quotas women are going to have to fill some combat slots.

3. If you think women are the weaker sex you haven't been married or you're just not paying attention.

4. Is it barbaric to assign women to combat roles? I don't believe so. The Celts, Goths, Vikings did so in the past and the Russians and Israeli's have done so in modern times.

5. Above all I'm a realist and the reality is that there is no safe place in modern warfare. Anyone military or civilian may be thrown into a combat situation at any time. You can rail and wring your hands all you want and you can't change the ugly facts, but you can bury
your head in the sand and ignore those facts.