Sally Quinn has been certifiably insane since she was born. Imagine a 50 IQ leftist hairy female ape defining the parameters where combat is okay for woman.
HAHAHAHA!
Go figure out how to pop the cap on your flea powder bottle, Sally.
I guess she never heard of females deliberately getting pregnant to avoid getting rotated forward or to get out of a rotation. After all, being on point or pulling scout duty is really hard and just too much to ask. (/sarc)
To answer the headline: WTF? No. Why would it?
And end the draft, it’s a dinosaur.
Lots of problems in these statements.
1) The draft is implemented when there is an inadequate supply of personnel for the military in the pipeline to serve military requirements of the nation.
2) It takes longer to train and equip raw draftees, than even an all volunteer force, but that still doesn't preclude the logistical domain where a large supply of personnel might be required for a lengthy conflict and insufficient time is available to market for those skill sets.
3) The supply of manpower to the warfighters generally flows from Active Regulars, to active Reserves, to inactive reserves, to volunteers new recruits to draftees. Each group may take 90-180 more days to field than their predecessors, depending upon the force requirements. It all depends upon the situation.
4) The activation of the draft isn't only conditioned upon an attack upon our homeland. Such a condition arguably might discourage the draft, as it would complicate internal lines of communication when existing labor resources might be better devoted to their current industry. Conversely, it might be more prudent to implement a draft to fight a foreign war, while on foreign shores, in a lengthy conflict, when the existing population is underemployed or unemployed.
Combat should be reserved for those who volunteer.
False again. Self-defense is not only reserved for those who elect to exercise that opinion. It is a right of all people. Very few people want to go into harm's way. Many give argument that the only reason they go into battle knowing many will not return is because of duty, orders, consequences should they resist such orders.
More importantly, there generally is insufficient time to command by popular opinion when war breaks out and orders are being issued.
If there is a war the majority of Americans believe is worth fighting, there would be no shortage of men and women willing to sign up for battle.
False again. In many situations, there probably will be a patriotic movement to volunteer for military service, but strategically, a war worth fighting might not provide America with the circumstances to allow us the time or resources to volunteer to oppose them. We might not know who our enemies are until it is nearly too late.
Even if enough time and resources are available, they must be organized to be brought to bear at the right time and place with adequate reserves to complete the mission. Volunteers after hostilities begin, generally are not employed for 180 to 360 days after the conflict begins, and even then they are green and generally not a balanced independently operable fighting force in modern tactics and operational art.
If not, we shouldn’t be in it. Period.
Again false. If not,..this might be the condition of those who are losers, also called the vanquished, those cast into slavery, slaughtered at the whim of their aggressors. Unlike the freedom exercised in her opinions, the finality of being conquered will be much more irreversible than the author's unequivocal, "Period."
"War is a terrible thing. Nobody should ever have to fight in one."
1) War is described as being terrible for very real reasons, but not for the reasons I perceive the author means.
War is not promoted by those who have fought in them, not generally because of violence, but because of the lack of rational cause for the consequential mayhem, and the inconsequential mayhem in even the most rationally planned endeavors.
The highest percentage of casualties and fatalities in warfare is always suffered by the noncombatants in the vicinity of warfare. That's why there are refugees from combat zones.
If war exists, it is in the best interest of those directly involved to be able to fight in them to defend their interests. Those who don't fight in them, and should, are either unprepared victims or cowards and neither are victors.
The author reminds me of the French position in WWII. Fighting for romantic liberty, but undisciplined to plan, organize, and operate with virtue.
Answer: NO. Once the females of one army see females of another wearing the same dress...look out!
If people (not the poster) are going to ask dumb questions, but ask them seriously, then let’s ask more than just one:
1. If women are allowed in combat, could this mean war over more superficial reasons than before?
2. If women are allowed in combat, could this mean more wars or more combat activity because of certain times of the month?
3. If women are allowed in combat, could this mean more wars based on feelings and emotions?
Now let’s ask some real questions:
4. If women are allowed in combat, could this mean now we’ll have commanders and squad leaders more reluctant to put certain soldiers under their command in the field because they’re women?
5. What if a commander treats all combat soliders equally and most or all of his female soldiers die in combat? What’s that officer’s career going to look like?
The question is fatally flawed because it is falsely premised. The question presumes that war is a result primarily rooted in US aggression -WRONG. The US wages war against aggressors and threats.
The number of wars waged will remain the same ALTHOUGH women in combat will necessarily translate into more women dead and far more women injured. THIS in addition to waging war with women in combat against male enemies who could care less about 'equality' and 'fairness'. The only 'equality' and 'fairness' that will be evidenced in combat will be that women will be just as dead and injured as the men.
War is unfair as in the fairer sex will get unfairly decimated.
Easy for you to say, Sally -- you airhead (famous airhead) -- now that you're way past the age when you might actually be asked to serve!
Conscription of women is another liberal fast-track to civilizational suicide. No wonder they call it "the death culture". Yeah, right, let's get our future mothers maimed, killed off, unable to bear, or screwed up with military stress problems and trying to raise kids anyway. Yeah, let's sign up for a big, fat slab of that.