Women in Combat Units: It's Still a Bad Idea
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Simons, Anna
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2001
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Summer 2001
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USAWC Press
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Abstract
Among the easiest predictions to make in this first year of the new century is that various interest groups will
continue to lobby to open all US combat units to women. At least five seemingly logical arguments can be
anticipated:
New post-Cold War missions require finesse, not brawn.
Twenty-first-century technologies are gender-neutral.
An equal opportunity to serve is every American citizen's right.
Cohesion does not require that soldiers bond socially, only that they accomplish their tasks effectively.
Our European allies are opening their combat units to women, therefore so should we.
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Special Operations Academic Group
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PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Summer 2001
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.