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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the military should be the best fighting force it should be, and introduce women in measured, researched ways that support that and do not threaten effectiveness or cohesion. However, if a directive from above has determined that social engineering is the most important priority then yes, all women should sign up for selective service and go into combat if qualified.  Forced birth control sounds a lot like 'controlling women's bodies" to me---incredibly invasive. That being said, you are government property when you are the military. You are subject to a separate legal code, you have to get constantly inoculated whether you like it or not, etc. so I imagine there is some room for intrusiveness in terms of pregnancies.  Pregnancy is a huge problem on Navy ships; can only imagine how the hanky panky that leads to these pregnancies erodes relationships and stability from the families waiting back home. If women come in en masse as in a draft war footing, perhaps single sex units would be best.[/quote]

But but but we just had a study meant to show women can fight in the same combat units as men and be effective. We spent millions of dollars on it! We just dictated women can be in all combat roles! Same sex units???

Love yhe flip flopping. Yay women can be all combat roles. What, selective service? But we are the weaker sex! [/quote]

Different PP here.  First of all, the studies meant to show women can fight in the same combat units as men are all based on women and men who volunteered.  Circumstances in an all-volunteer army are very different than in an army with men and women who did not willingly choose to join.

Men and women in an all-volunteer army have made a decision to make a career in the military, so they have incentives to do well, to do what they have to do to be physically capable, and to follow the rules.

A draft changes things drastically because the military is dealing with a lot of people who do not want to be there -- a lot of 18-24 year olds who do not want to be there.  That changes the nature of how willing or likely soldiers are to conforming to military code and culture.

I'm not saying women should not have to register for the draft.  I'm saying that you are naive if you don't acknowledge that drafting women opens up a lot of issues and potential problems that have nothing to do with them being the weaker sex and way more to do with other realities of human nature and biology.

It will present challenges.  I'm not saying those challenges are insurmountable, but we can't even begin to address them if we don't acknowledge them.

The Israeli army is not a good comparison.  Why?  Because the culture is different.  Israel also does HEAVY profiling in law enforcement, in airports, but that doesn't mean we want to do that here.

And for anyone who suggests that I am trying to get out of something, I'm well past the age of the draft, and I don't have any daughters.  My concern is not that women can't handle military service or can't perform the duties physically.  I think there are other issues.

As I wrote in an earlier post, the biggest issue is pregnancy/pregnancy prevention.   Anyone who thinks that isn't an issue is naive.   And, no, no pregnant woman should be forced to serve in the military -- even if it is serving food in the mess hall.  That should be an automatic ticket home.  Of course, people who don't want to be drafted will exploit whatever means they can to avoid being drafted.  So I'm sure that would be used.

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