Women in Combat? No!

The question of whether to integrate women into direct combat ground units is difficult; not because I lack confidence in my answer but because any answer is perilous. Obviously, there’s the political peril – for the question of whether women should be assigned to direct combat is asked as a facet of larger questions concerning the equality of men and women, and perceptions of basic fairness. In today’s hyper-sensitive, politically correct culture, to suggest that men and women are not, in fact, interchangeable or that men and women, by nature and by the design of nature’s God, are different and that this difference sometimes manifests in different abilities and, consequently, different opportunities, is to risk accusations of misogyny.