The majority of MEN are unsuitable for service in front-line infantry units. It takes intense and dedicated training to get even those men physically and psychologically suitable for the role to function at the most basic level of proficiency.
It takes a hell of a lot more to turn a collection of random infantrymen into a capable fighting unit. As a matter of fact, it’s rarely accomplished. A major issue in even our professional, highly trained armed forces is low unit cohesiveness and the hemorrhaging of qualified personnel to other units or out of the service entirely. Our up-or-out policies don’t particularly facilitate the retention qualified and respected leaders within a given unit, for example.
Unit cohesiveness is the difference between fielding an army and fielding a mob. Without a level of trust, reliance, brotherhood and identity that is frankly alien to American life a fighting unit breaks down and ceases to function as a whole. The result is increased casualties and decreased effectiveness.
Quite frankly, the sense of community, duty, and the intense conflict resolution skills necessary for a combat unit to function as a distinct entity are outright alien to American sensibilities - our society does NOT prepare us to spend months or years effectively locked in the same bathroom with a couple of people that we could barely tolerate under the best of circumstances. Our society does not prepare us for the experience of being an integral part of a small, largely dysfunctional community operating in an environment where failure means death.
In America, if you don’t like your neighbors you move. If you don’t like your job, you get a different one. If you don’t like your family, you leave. If you feel like shit and don’t want to go to work, you call in sick. We can’t even conceive of what it was like for our ancestors to live in small communities dependent on each other for survival, let alone conceive of what it is like to operate in an environment where everyone around you can be killed if you don’t do your job precisely, if you fall asleep when you shouldn’t after being awake for 3 days, if you can’t carry 100+ pounds of your gear as well as carrying a 200 pound teammate. Nor can we conceive of living and working in an environment where WE can die if someone else fails at being super-human for just a moment.
Frankly, if women in combat units were effective you would have seen about every nation on Earth using them. Why, precisely WHY would a nation sacrifice half of its potential military strength? If a nation could double its effective combat strength by putting women on the line, then why wouldn’t it? Instead we see nations locked in desperate battles for their very survival TRYING to put women into combat and then quickly pulling them out again when it becomes apparent that it just doesn’t work.
Don’t worry though, no nation exists in a vacuum. Failure isn’t tolerated for long in this world - when a nation ignores reality and ceases to pursue success for long enough, said nation falls. You can’t pursue fanciful little egalitarian myths for long, you can’t ignore natural law for long either.
Rome fell when army units were staffed by foreign barbarians with no concept of “Rome”; we’re sending imported Hispanics to fill our ranks, and will probably get the same result. They won’t do anything to cause it; the concept of “The United States of America” will simply cease to exist. In fact, that has already happened. Obama’s initial election showed that the United States had fallen; his re-election showed it won’t get back up. When Rome fell, it wasn’t like everything collapsed at once; people just started living in their own little worlds because the larger “Roman” world was gone. That is where we are now.