Here is an excellent piece on why putting women in combat is such a bad idea. I’d post an excerpt, but you really should read the whole thing.
See also this older item by Fred Reed.
Throughout history, wise societies have realized that women, as the source of, and natural limit to, future generations, are a people’s single most precious resource. They are what armies, traditionally, fight to protect.
We no longer live in a wise society.
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I’m not able to access Fred via the link, but I can see his article via Google Cache.
Strange. Works fine here. Must be a Korea thing.
Must be. Still not working here. Let me try with a VPN. Just a sec…
…Nerp. Not even working with a VPN connection, which means the problem might not be specifically Korean. Could still be, though. Anyhoo, Google Cache to the rescue.
The push to feminize the combat arms puts a political agenda above fielding the most effective fighting force. The long list of daily life issues in challenging combat environments gets tossed aside by the vast army of political operatives ensconced within the Pentagon. Among both high-ranking female officers and civilians there, you will find a bastion of feminist apparatchiks who ruin careers of those who speak out of turn on the women in the military issue and they’ve proven quite adept at burying statistics on female performance and problems with integrated training and living conditions. Plus, these operatives maintain close ties to like-minded Congress members, where their “expertise” serves as the Pentagon view. Top brass of the male persuasion learned to tow the feminist line or else. Reality takes a back seat to the political agenda.
Having been a guinea pig in this experiment decades ago, not surprisingly the same things happen today, as then, when you put young men and women together away from home, often in stressful environments:
http://nyti.ms/1JOsC6O
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/series/women_at_arms/index.html
This might be easier to reach from the good ol’ ROK:
http://www.unz.com/freed/women-in-the-military-fiat-equality/
When liberals get their hooks into any institution, that institution is weakened, devalued and rendered less fit for its intended purpose. The military and its culture have been in the Left’s crosshairs for decades. Feminize foreign policy, then the military, then the young recruits needed to fill the ranks.
This is why the creation of shadow institutions is so important. Shadow economies, shadow governments, shadow infrastructures of all types.
It is best to hide in plain sight when forming any organization that may be taken as a threat to the overlords. Always hide in plain sight whenever possible while laying viable plans for a new world.
I’d suggest Friends, don’t y’all click on our new “friend” Alice’s underline.
My defaults I’m figuring are “probably” set stronger than most.
You especially Whitewall.
O’Sullivan’s Law:
Al Fin! Nice to see you here.
Friend of your’s Malcolm? (Maybe .,.. well you know … not one of EE’s by any chance I kinda/sorta mean.
I did get pinged … first time that’s happened on your comment link.)
No, we aren’t really acquainted. Al Fin maintains several interesting blogs, well-known in certain circles.
Well then … Belay that.
Whitewall go look for reefs. Mind for swirls an’ windswepts.
A’clear … fire a flare. Red if it hets sundowned. Flags if afore.
JK, thanks for the heads up. My approaches are only from dry land and my circles definitely “elliptical”.
My approaches are only from dry land and my circles definitely “elliptical”.
Well, for what it’s worth, a circle is technically an ellipse that’s been compressed to the point where the two foci become one.