Why were women excluded from being drafted?

Answer 1

Since the beginning of time, women have been excluded from the military, with the rare exceptions of emergencies; such as the Russian front during WWII when women were used as pilots and tank crewmembers, and in Israel when women were employed side by side with men in the 1948 wars. Some of the reasons are the following:

1. Women generally think differently than men, that's why they say, "I don't understand women, why do they do that?!" And women say, "I don't understand men! Why do they do that?!" It's really very simple; birds of a feather stick together; males are males and females are females.

2. War breaks down the human being (both male and female) to the animal level. Instead of wanting a bigger SUV, bigger house, expensive clothes and being a high ranking supervisor at work (all of which are psychological needs=ego); the human at the animal level is only concerned about his life sustaining needs (the PHYSIOLOGICAL needs) such as Food, Shelter, and Safety (pain & death avoidance).

3. Since males understand males (paragraph 1), more than they do females, a military leader (officers or NCOs) will, as the military used to say, "know their men." If a leader knows his men, he can lead them. If he doesn't understand his men's needs and wants (and/or doesn't care about his men's needs and wants), then he will not be successful in leading his men in combat; the US Army terms this statement as "leadership."

4. Hygiene. This is a necessary element of living creatures; be they frog, rabbit, dog, cat, or human. Support (finances, fuels, foods, ammo, transportation, tents, showers, toilet paper, medical supplies, barbed wire, signs, bridges, cement, etc. etc.) are the largest component of any military. It takes a minimum of 5 support people to support ONE fighting man. With the addition of females to such a system; the military system will have to be more complex. The simpler the system, the better it works. The more complicated the system, the opposite will occur.

5. There is a solution to anything. One of them has already occurred during the 1990s. US Congress passed some laws allowing the US Military to conduct "law enforcement duties." This was done because with the end of the cold war in 1990 (the collapse of the USSR) the US was shutting down it's military bases; base closures. The US military absolutely did not want to become policemen. They wanted to retain their traditional military. But faced with un-employment (base closures), the old guard retired, the new generation took over the military, and accepted the proposal to become a semi "law enforcement force." That's why you now see US military troops along the US/Mexican border helping to enforce drug and Immigration laws. As well as trying to establish and maintain law, order, and stability in Iraq.

6. As a law enforcement force instead of a traditional military force, WITHOUT the traditional hardships of the former traditional military, females and males could function successfully as they do on any police department.