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When the Pentagon lifted the ban on females in direct combat, top brass and President Obama were in reality "sending wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters into the most brutal violence known to man." The January 2013 move is bad policy that Congress is obligated to investigate, according to the author of Deadly Consequences. Robert L. Maginnis chastises the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other "senior officers who act more like politicians than authentic military leaders." While feminists who "seek the radical reordering of society" have "framed it as an equal rights issue," putting women in direct combat positions is a matter of readiness, capabilities, and compromised standards. Females quite simply cannot do the job. The anabolic effect of testosterone is the physiological component that turns young men into warriors. It is why men are bigger, stronger, and more physically capable, with a greater level of endurance. In order to allow women in greater numbers, the Army Physical Fitness Test has already degraded their requirements. A perfect push-up score requires 72 for men, but just 42 for women. A perfect score for running two miles is a full one minute and 38 seconds slower for females than for males. The author states that the Congressional hearings should include the testimony of men who have participated in direct hand-to-hand combat: veterans of the battles of Fallujah and Najaf in Iraq; Vietnam vets who participated in the Tet offensive; and Korean war "eyeball-to-eyeball" warriors. The horrors of these men's experiences as fighters would surely serve as a wake-up call to Congressmen (only 1/4 of whom have ever served in the armed forces in any capacity) and to a public that increasingly approves of female combatants, in part due to ridiculous Hollywood portrayals of female warriors. As Maginnis says, "This is not only a feminist and politically correct assault; it is plain stupid and will degrade the armed forces' ability to defend the country." World stability depends on the United States military. Women in combat is not good for women, not good for America, and not good for the world. (Regnery Publishing, 2013, 244 pp., $27.95) |
He debunks every argument given by proponents of women in combat, offers reasons why it is an outrageous idea, and explains the detrimental effects it will have on our nation, including: compromised standards; reduced readiness; loss of the warrior spirit; the physical suffering of women; and forcing women to serve in the event of a draft.
