drafting..., women? Options

[smile4me]

whee..im back...for a very short while.

today, we were discussing this topic (should women be drafted into the army?) during english.

and then i thought...createblog!

so what's your take on it?

[*CrackedRearView*]

The people that are arguing that we should draft women aren't looking at things in a broad enough perspective, though. Here's why.

The military is a completely different world. What this means is that what we know and think in our civilian lives is separate from what happens in the military. This creates a situation called civil-military relations. Essentially, it means that the good relationship between the civilian population and our servicemembers must be maintained. Should we not maintain this relationship, we'll see certain devastating effects to our national security.

Now, if you look at the ratio of male to female servicemembers, you'll see that there are upwards of 1,250,000 men as compared to just over 215,000 women. This is a 6:1 ratio, which portrays a long-running tradition of male participation in an organization that, as I pointed out earlier, must be left to make its own decisions on how it operates. What I see from the people arguing that women should be drafted into the military is an insistence; a very certain, very absolute position that states we should draft women. When you see the civilian population insisting that the military act a certain way, you'll find many devastating impacts from it (including military disintegration, poor foreign relations, conditions for nuclear war, etc).

Now, don't get me wrong, I agree with the people in this thread in that women are undeniably capable of serving their country in the armed forces. However, when the circumstances warrant a military draft (and some day they will), I'm willing to bet that the United States' military will not be looking for women to draft to the front lines. Thus, when that day comes, the people in this thread pushing for the military to allow women into the draft will be sorely disappointed because frankly, the military doesn't care what they think.