December 3, 2015, a day that will live in infamy for the United States, Defense Secretary “Ash” Carter (ironic for that is certainly what he has made of the world’s once most powerful military) unilaterally and against expert advice to the contrary opened all combat jobs to women. Carter is a democrat appointed by Clinton and Obama. He received his double B.A. degree in Physics and Medieval History (think Society for Creative Anachronism– the people who dress up and play like they’re living in the Middle Ages) from Yale. He was a Rhodes Scholar receiving a Phd. in Theoretical Physics in 1979. He was a fellow research associate in Theoretical Physics at Rockefeller University and at MIT Center for International Studies. He taught at Harvard (where students can write their own curriculum and graduates fail writing tests for Fortune 500 companies).
Somehow “Ash’s” Theoretical Physics degree qualified him to become US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during Clinton’s first term responsible for policy regarding the former Soviet states, strategic affairs, and nuclear weapons policy. He then became Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics – a bean counter. “Ash” has never served a day on active duty in the military.
The progressive military agenda began with Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder (D, 1973-1997). She was the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC). She started the feminization of the military by demanding the military “reflect society” – code for reducing standards to ensure minorities – especially women – were represented statistically within the military. It was the beginning of qualified, white, male officers being taken off promotion lists to be replaced by less qualified female and other minority officers. The president of my major’s promotion board refused to do this twice – then replaced with a more compliant officer.
The reality about women in the military can be found in several books:
Deadly Consequences: How Cowards are Pushing Women into Combat by Robert L. Maginnis, LCOL (ret), 2013. “Maginnis is the Senior Fellow for National Security at Family Research Council. He was Inspector General at the Pentagon from 1990-1993. He describes how President Obama is dead set on eviscerating our military by pushing women to the frontlines. …Civilian feminists view ground combat as a glass ceiling for women’s equal opportunity. They could care less about our fighting ability or the threat it poses for women and for the men they serve with. Women in the U.S. Armed Forces are regularly held to lower training standards than men. That means that when they’re called into active combat situations they won’t bring the same physical strength and skills as men do. In training, male Marines are required to lift 40 pounds, while the female trainees must only lift 20 [while loading vehicles for deployment to Mogadishu, I saw another group of soldiers loading their vehicle for deployment to another country. The team leader ordered his assistant machine gunner, a black female, to go get the cans of ammunition for their machine gun. She told her sergeant “it’s too heavy, get someone else to do it.] … On top of this disparity is a looming draft. Security experts foresee another American draft within this generation. … If women can serve in combat, every male and female over the age of 18 will be ‘in danger’ [?] of being called up.”
Co-Ed Combat: The New Evidence that Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars by Kingsley Browne, 2007. “Browne is a law professor specializing in employment discrimination. He examines the latest research in the fields of anthropology, biology, and psychology, finding evidence the notion that women can be trained to behave like men in combat is grievously mistaken. Nor can they be socialized to accept them. He writes how men’s worst fears in battle differ dramatically from women’s worst fears – and why men’s fears are advantageous to the military, why modern warfare does not dispense with the need for brute strength, and how the military and media try to minimize this fact, how leadership differences adversely affect morale, why women’s biology and psychology make them prone to more training injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other impairments, and the grave strategic consequences of sexual integration, such as one alarming report that Osama bin Laden escaped Tora Bora because the U.S. military put gender considerations ahead of efficacy.”
The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann, 2000. “Our armed forces are deeply mired in an expensive, resource-draining, time-consuming, morale-flattening project, one that has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to do with politically correct politics. Gutmann shows why the complete integration of women into the military is physically and sociologically impossible and how the pursuit of this unrealistic ideal is profoundly demoralizing to soldiers of both sexes and a sure setup for battlefield disaster.”
Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster by Brian Mitchell, 1997. “Mitchell, an Army veteran and hardly a guarded writer, disputes every argument ever put forward to open the military services to women, and for evidence he reviews most of the studies and commissions that have examined the issue since the 1970s. He discusses when the going gets tough, the tough get “stress passes”, the truth about female performance in the (first) Gulf War, the two countries that tried a feminized military and quickly abandoned it, and the hard data on soaring attrition rates, skyrocketing medical costs, lower rates of deployment, mushrooming levels of single parenthood.”
Regardless of the facts, the agenda to destroy the military continues. For the first time in my life I’m advising young people not to join the military.
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” – Aeschylus, 525-456 B.C.
