Training All Soldiers for Combat, Including Women, Will Better Prepare the Army for Tomorrow's...

Too much has been made of the decision to allow women to enter the traditional “combat” branches of the US military. The American way of war, both in resourcing and in combat operations, has focused on a small core of multiple-time volunteers coupled with a willingness to engage in protracted counter-insurgency conflicts in remote parts of the world that offer no clear, easy, or immediate solution. The only reasonable solution to this, that the US military only arrived at haltingly, was to offer women roles that exposed them to direct ground combat and allowed them the opportunity, like men have had, to volunteer for training and evaluation in direct combat positions, from infantry and armor to special operations.