women in combat
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Drafting Our Wives and Daughters for War?
Military leaders are ready to overhaul the military draft.
Female Warriors and the Bottle
It is apparently a little-known fact in the Obama administration that girls are weaker than boys and that grown women are weaker than grown men. Moreover, women training for combat positions suffer physical injuries at twice the rate of men, and they suffer significantly higher rates of mental disorders such as depression and anxiety after exposure to combat. Of course, you probably knew this by simple observation or by reading the sports page and noting that women’s athletic records are significantly lower than men’s records. But then, you are not in the Obama administration.
Our Timid Military Leaders
This month, President Barack Obama’s defense secretary, Ashton Carter, decreed that there will be 220,000 combat military jobs offered to women — including in Army special operations forces and the Navy SEALs. He said, “They’ll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat ... and everything else that was previously open only to men.”