By: westwood

I'm somewhat familiar with two military forces... the Canadian Forces and the IDF... both of which have had women in combat roles for quite some time. And they are both among the most effective military forces in the world (the IDF much more so). In the IDF women serve in light combat, artillery,border defense, and as fighter pilots. In terms of seeing action, deployment to the hottest of the hot spots (Israel is peanut-sized, so everything is a hot spot) is still left to men. In the Canadian Forces, women only occupy 2% of regular force combat roles and 7% of reserve combat roles. Although, despite the fact that 15% of the CF is women, only 4% are officers. There's a long way to go. Women's inherent incapability for combat roles = DISPROVED. To discourage potential flamers, please note that I did not draw any relationship between the word 'effective' and values such as good or bad.