350 Driver
You write excellent trenchant commonsense. Your opposition seem to me to be those indoctrinated with the kind of political thinking so beloved by many leftish educational systems. My own anxieties about the recruitment of the ladies to the armed forces relate to those in direct contact with an enemy.
There has been some impetus - notified in the media - to make this option available. I believe that there are irreconcilable differences in the way that men and women approach the same task. Killing another person is a matter of considerable difficulty for both sexes; very difficult to impossible for most women; less so for men.
Men have towards women a strongly protective instinct that has been there since we stood up on our hind legs. I cannot believe, coming as I do from a military background, that this powerful instinct does not at best merely impede operational efficiency but at worst, produces a situation that can turn a successful military operation into a dangerous failure.