That's not a very good reason. You're committing the same fallacy people make when they argue that only men should be allowed in the military because they tend to be stronger.
You didn't understand what I was saying. I said that human war is not dependent on brute force and physical strength (how many troops engage in hand to hand combat these days?), so those qualities are nearly irrelevant. So therefore, women are just as qualified as men to be infantry.
Hand to hand combat is not the only situation where physical strength is important to a soldier. What about lifting your 200 lb wounded buddy and carrying them to safety? What about carrying very heavy equipment over rough terrain? Read the articles I posted a couple pages back.
If you can't do the physical part of the job, you don't get into the infantry. Gender unimportant.
Are there really people out there that think women don't understand the risks they subject themselves to by joining the armed services and that they are incapable of seeing that they might get targeted for special mistreatment if captured?
If a female wants to join the military, and they are physically capable of doing the job and mentally capable of handling the training, then who the fork are you to say they shouldn't do it?
There will be fewer physically suitable females than males for infantry service because that's just how nature designed us. Mentally, however, it's all a mix of personality, culture, and life experience. There are plenty of females in this world who are rock hard both physically and mentally. The only problems that exist with allowing females to serve however they are physically and mentally capable of serving are in the heads of people who don't see them as full human beings with a right to make their own decisions.
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