I agree as my other posts on this thread suggest. I would be interested to know how much weight the boys are carrying in the Afgan at the moment.I think your first point proves that womens drills can be spot on, I'd never suggest women are not capable of being good soldiers but I just don't think they'd make good Infantry soldiers mainly for the reason in your second point.
The Russian and VC snipers didn't carry a lot of kit besides their rifle which is why being women wouldn't have been a hindrance. But while there's lots of women who are strong and lots of women who have great endurance the numbers of women who have both attributes in sufficient quantity to make it as an Infantry soldier would be minimal.
I generally support womens rights to do any job but you can't ignore basic biology and that does put women at a significant disadvantage to men in these sort of situations.
There's tons of men who don't make the grade, my own knees ended up giving out during my various attempts to join up due to carrying weight and womens skeletons are lighter and less dense than a males skeleton so they'd be even more likely so suffer
Body armour
Radio
5.56 mags
5.56 link
7.62 link
Smoke
Grenade
Phosphorus
40 mm
Water
Night vision
Medical kits
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As far as wars go, we have a well established military history which spans over several centuries.. what does your nearly bankrupt nation have? Revolutionary War, okay, fair play give you that. Last minute royal rumble entrance in WW1 and WW2, okay give you that too.. anything else of significance? Quagmired in 'Nam and left with your tails between your legs.. similar is happening now in Afghanistan/Iraq. Then of course theres the non-incidents that happened where the US military were involved.
