Theoretical Research

Army may train women for rigor of front lines

The Washington times wrote an article about the US military's involvement of women in the military. Instead of talking only about adding them into the infantry ranks, they sited some studies done about women's health in direct combat in Britain and Canada. More women got injured, more had to evacuated, and more could not maintain the physical aspect needed to fight in the front of battle lines. The article talked about how it was harder for women to endure the tough courses that the officers have to do, their physical abilities cannot match up with the men in the army, and in result they start to get injured and can't make it to high levels of the military. Some make the argument that women should be given the chance regardless of this if they were allowed to go to Ranger school, which trains the soldiers who have been in combat how to fight on front lines and can lead them to be higher officers. Some think that women should be given the chance to make it, even if only one women can, at least she got the shot. 

This is more abstract because it goes into more details about women's health and what they can and can't endure. It shows some of the weaknesses in women's physicality compared to men's. This is not necessarily making the command rethink the idea of letting women try to get into the infantry, they think that a very small women could potentially do it.