im not trying to sound sexist and ill apologize if ive led you to believe that i am
BUT
I never said the load that the modern soldier was less than that of someone wearing a full suit of plate or mail, i simply said that aiming a gun and pulling a trigger is far easier than stabbing someone and trying to avoid getting stabbed.
and dont tell me that the day to day is more demanding than earlier period wars, modern soldiers have cars and other sorts of transport where men would have to march for days to reach their battle fields
combat was not as rare as youd think although large battles were rare
women make up % in democratic armies although the larger majority of those women serving in armies are not on the front lines
i also said that women were more undefended while relieving themselves. whether or not they can manage it is irrelevant since i know they can, i was just arguing that its not as good
not sure if i already said this before but women have this thing called a period and they typically require a bit more care to deal with than men who dont have to
also i think i read this somewhere so take this with a grain of salt but relationship issues? one breakup and a whole squadâs flow could be disrupted, although being dumped puts of most people (im taking this from sports people)
no i do not know any woman who is deployed in combat although i do know some who have been in supoort units
averages can actually be pretty important since most people who join the army (as far as i can tell) are just young people thinking they can do something for the world, country, bragging rights, or simply as a job and they just stuck with it
i never said women should never be soldiers i was simply pointing out that it usually isnt a good idea
those few women who are fit for combat still carry the disadvantages of other women
sure men have their own set of disadvantages but men are still more suited for combat that women
one last point is that men are historically fighting units because if a society loses a huge amount of its men but still has a ton of women their population can make huge recoveries in the next generation
now if both or just women are lost then the potential population of that society is far lower
the mental strain of modern war of course is far greater than that of a medieval battle fields