Women i the Military

Sending women into battle a poor strategic decision 12 August 2005
THE decision to allow women to be posted to frontline combat zones is a step backward that will exacerbate declining numbers in the Australian Armed Forces as women have a much higher dropout rate than men when placed in dangerous work environments.
Currently there are more than 7000 women in the defence force – 13 per cent of the total peacetime force of just over 52,000.
Defence Personnel Minister De-Anne Kelly has said that allowing women into combat will move the ADF closer to total equality for women. But does the military exist for gender equality, especially as it alters the group dynamic? Combat readiness would be hurt because men, instead of looking out for the needs of their group, would focus on the women leading to a breakdown in male bonding and cohesion.
It comes as no surprise that 10 per cent of US female soldiers are pregnant at any one given time. Since no replacements are provided, this creates additional duties for other soldiers. Consider if you will, what would happen if 10 per cent of men took "time out" for family based reasons. They would be labelled "shirkers" at best, cowards at worst, but it's okay for female soldiers.
Also, female recruits complete less gruelling training schedules than their male counterparts – but they still get equal pay. This leads to a morale issue within the services. Affirmative action fuels the perception that favouritism sees lesser-qualified female candidates get the jobs, and promotions, ahead of better-qualified men.
We spend billions protecting women in this country against violence and assault. Now, here we are wanting to place women directly in the line of fire where there is a very real danger of them being injured, killed or becoming victims of sexual assault.
This nation has a declining birthrate due to the already high female workforce participation rate and high levels of male unemployment. So tell me, why do we need more women in the military?Alan BarronSpokesman: The Memucan Institute of Men's StudiesGrovedale, Vic

Source: The Australian 12/8/05

Admitting women to the Military is more than a strategic error, it is a deep biological betrayal and contrary to human evolution. When one considers that the motivation is shortage of recruits then this profound mistake is even more tragic.

Women have been gathers and collectors, not hunters. When males went away from the settlement to hunt for meat women remained close to the home and ventured out only for the gathering of nuts, fruits, herbs and vegetables. Hence herbal lore has always been in the provenance of women.

This is no mere simple division of labour for it has a profoundly important biological basis. In short women preseved the mother-child relationship while men lost their connectedness to nature during the process of learning to become patriachal. The mother-child relationship is arguably the only unconditional love humans experience. This may or may not be true and even if more highly evolved individuals reach a point of unconditional love for their partners or even humanity as in Panchen Lamas, the Lamas who return to earth to be of service to humanity. Women have preserved this relationship and that is an unrecognised feat for which we all ought to be eternally grateful to women.

We see this in ordinary everyday life and you can attest it for yourself. Women do not like to kill anything, they like to heal and give care. Women nurture not just their own offspring, but the environment around them. Yes this is a generalisation however, it is true and open for anyone to observe.

Men lost their connectedness to nature and this began with misapporpriation. Following a breakdown in the coherence of trust men developed what we now recognise as Patriachy and in this process they learned to kill to enforce control.

To put women in a position where the main task is to kill is sacriligious and profoundly wrong. We can only hope that this attempt fails and that the current level of women in the military falls.

Readers who are struggling with these concepts may wish to study "The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding" Maturana and Verela, 1992, Shambala, London.