Do you think that women should be draft along side men? If so why?

Answer 1

If the regulations change where females can hold combat specialities, they should be drafted. If the prohibition is not changed, they usually have enough females enlisting to hold the jobs they are allowed.

The only think keeping US females out of combat MOSs is society. Other nations do not have the same prohibition. It's not based on performance but on social standards instead.

Answer 2

No. Drafting women along with men would be a really bad idea for several reasons:

1) It would be bad for discipline. Men have a natural inclination to protect women. Nobody enjoys seeing anyone killed in war. However, a man would much rather see ten, twenty, fifty or even a hundred male chests ripped open by enemy fire before seeing a single pair of female breasts touched by such savagery. This would cause male soldiers to disobey orders that might put their female comrades at risk.

2) It would be bad for morale. What could possibly motivate a man to leave his home and go halfway around the world and suffer horrifying conditions and even possibly give up his life? It would be for the safety of his girlfriend or wife and children back home. If you draft women, the men would be constantly distracted and worrying about their girlfriends or wives getting drafted and sent to war and getting killed and/or raped by the enemy. Yes, rape: there's another thing to think about when drafting women.

3) Males are more biologically expendable than females because females are the reproductive bottleneck. One man can impregnate many women in a short amount of time, but one woman can only have a handful of children in her entire lifetime. If a large percentage of young males get killed (e.g., a quarter in some European countries in WWI), you can still repopulate the country, but if the same percentage of young females die, your population will be decimated.

4) Any woman could escape the draft by becoming pregnant. Only women can get pregnant and only women can breastfeed babies. You can't put a pregnant or nursing woman on the battlefield, so she's going to be on the sidelines for about a year.

5) Families with children might be left parentless if both parents are drafted.

6) Men and women really are different physically and mentally. In the mental area, I already mentioned the male tendency to protect females, but they are also more aggressive and more likely to take risks. This is not just social conditioning but also evolutionary; it does no good for the sex that bears children to partake in risky activities. Men are better able to compartmentalize their emotions and suppress their fears.

Men are also physically stronger than women, especially in the arms and chest area. Walk into any gym and you'll see that even the weakest 20-year-old man will benchpress more than most females. Most military equipment and operations are designed around the height, weight, strength and endurance of a healthy young adult male, e.g., the weight of the backpacks. If you drafted women into combat, you would have to spend lots of time and money redesigning everything.

Answer 3

I agree with Wright Sense. Society is not ready to see their daughters and mothers in combat and Joe is not ready to accept them into the combat arms.

There are some other issues that play a role, such as field sanitation, war-zone relationships, etc, but these can be overcome and are far outweighed by the advantage of doubling combat power.

My main contention with the draft is that everyone whose daddy is someone gets some sort of exemption (our president for instance), and then all the poor people go and fight. The key to any draft is fairness in selection.

Answer 4

I've always felt that both should be drafted. I remember in the lst Gulf war though, a woman was sent over and she had just given birth 4 weeks before. Now THAT is disbusting!

Answer 5

I am against the draft altogether, but I realize that I could be drafted.