https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/06/pete-hegseth-defense-religion-christian-00192117
Hegseth represents an old-school and still powerful soldier archetype: white, masculine and God-fearing. According to 2019 Department of Defense data, approximately 70 percent of active duty service members are Christian. It’s the people who look, talk and pray like Hegseth who are most receptive to his tirades against the military’s elevation of women to combat roles, a fierce and largely unresolved debate thanks to a limited and conflicting tranche of research on the topic. Hegseth frames the issue in extreme and unfounded ways, asserting that integration destroys morale and loses wars, when, in fact, women have been serving in productive military roles for more than 200 years. Hegseth derides DEI and CRT initiatives for similar reasons, calling them discriminatory ideologies that “turn off the young, patriotic, Christian men who have traditionally filled our ranks.”
What percentage of women in the IDF serve on the ground? Not in tanks, not in planes but the grunts who go door to door in Gaza and over the hills in Lebanon under constant risk of being killed?
ReplyDeleteOf the over 800 soldiers killed during this war, what percentage are women?
Yes, women have served bravely and with great valour in the American army but like Israel, when the time to send large numbers of soldiers to their potential death comes, suddenly it's something like 99% men out there on the front lines and in the trenches doing the most dangerous work.