mhood:
Wrong about one thing. Israel today doesn't put women into front line combat roles. They did when the country was first formed but they find there were too many problems. They serve in other roles today. Women can do the same mental jobs as men, sometimes better, but they are not able to do the same physical jobs. And combat is very physical.
A senior Defense Department official said the ban on women in combat should be lifted because the military's goal is "to provide a level, gender-neutral playing field." I'd like to think the goal of the military should be to have the toughest, meanest fighting force possible. But let's look at "gender-neutral playing field."
The Army's physical fitness test in basic training is a three-event physical performance test used to assess endurance. The minimum requirement for 17- to 21-year-old males is 35 pushups, 47 situps and a two-mile run in 16 minutes, 36 seconds or less. For females of the same age,...
and Israel only fights close to home,they don't deploy all over the world like the US does.
Israel can rotate soldiers back to Israel easily.