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Originally Posted by OM603
In the long course of human conflict are you basing your argument as to the suitability of women in combat as compared to the suitability of men on such an extraordinarily tiny field of dubious exceptions. Do you deny that throughout human history that men have engaged in mortal combat on both the winning and on the losing sides in orders of magnitude many times greater than women have? Are you trying to argue that because there may have been a few exceptions often in unique circumstances where a women might have been afforded a "leadership" role that there is any substantial evidence of a predominantly female force has defeated a predominantly male force anywhere at any time across the arch of human conflict? Can you cite a single example where the balance of the conflict was in great significance thrown to one side due to the inclusion of women combatants that the opposing side failed to avail itself of similarly.
I served when the mission and primary objective was to impose our national will through the overwhelming force of arms, a couple hundreds of thousands of years of evolution has selected one gender better equipped to stomp on an opposing motherforkers chest and bayonet the same through his neck, than the other despite the current PC dogma to the contrary. And ultimately it always comes down exactly that in the end.
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A female aircraft, helicopter or drone pilot or missile launch officer can kill as many men as as one could desire.
Finding a front line in the wars we have fought for the previous half-century or so is rather difficult, often making camp followers impromptu warriors. They are better off having some combat skills then not.
There are some duties for which gentle, weak, kind-hearted, nurturing people are ill-suited. There are some duties for which they are. Doesn't matter whether they are male or female.
I think an exception in my mind are assault troops on the ground. That takes physical strength and something I believe is almost uniquely masculine -- the ability to set-aside one's humanity for a goal. We see this in crime stats. We see it in the more formal battlefield of warfare. Sure, women can be violent and dangerous. There are even some few women who can do as most men can do with relative ease -- become a killer of men. But most women aren't that way and don't want to be. Hell, most men don't want to be, but it usually doesn't take much to make them so.