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*Women also anatomically have specifical hygienic needs that may not be met in war situations, thus leading to illnesses and distress on their part. These illnesses include, but are not limited to, urinary tract infections and gynecological disorders.<ref>http://www.4militarywomen.org/WIM09Presentations/Steele.pdf</ref> US Army regulations explicitly advise female soldiers to wash more often and with more water than men.<ref>http://hooah4health.com/deployment/docs/Female_Soldier_Readiness_Guide.pdf</ref>

*Women also anatomically have specifical hygienic needs that may not be met in war situations, thus leading to illnesses and distress on their part. These illnesses include, but are not limited to, urinary tract infections and gynecological disorders.<ref>http://www.4militarywomen.org/WIM09Presentations/Steele.pdf</ref> US Army regulations explicitly advise female soldiers to wash more often and with more water than men.<ref>http://hooah4health.com/deployment/docs/Female_Soldier_Readiness_Guide.pdf</ref>

*Female soldiers may deliberately get pregnant in order to avoid hazardous duty. If a man tried to render himself medically unsuitable for combat, he would be subjected to punishment. Aside from being morally questionable, this frequently used-trick can severely harm a unit's capability to operate by removing hardly replaceable skilled military personnel. For this reason, US Major General Anthony Cucolo, commander of the Northern [[Iraq]] zone, enacted in 2009 a policy prohibiting women from getting pregnanty, allegedly with the threat of "court martial" and "jail time."<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237333/Serving-U-S-troops-face-prison-fall-pregnant-active.html</ref> However, he was soon forced to back down when four [[Democrat]] Senators and the [[Feminism|Natonal Organization of Women]] fiercely attacked him on [[politically correct|political correctness]] grounds. The general reduced the penalty to a mere and symbolical "admonishment".<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/WN/general-backs-off-threat-court-martial-pregnant-soldiers/story?id=9399604#.TxBXDaVDCf4</ref>

*Female soldiers may deliberately get pregnant in order to avoid hazardous duty. If a man tried to render himself medically unsuitable for combat, he would be subjected to punishment. Aside from being morally questionable, this frequently used-trick can severely harm a unit's capability to operate by removing hardly replaceable skilled military personnel. For this reason, US Major General Anthony Cucolo, commander of the Northern [[Iraq]] zone, enacted in 2009 a policy prohibiting women from getting pregnanty, allegedly with the threat of "court martial" and "jail time."<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237333/Serving-U-S-troops-face-prison-fall-pregnant-active.html</ref> However, he was soon forced to back down when four [[Democrat]] Senators and the [[Feminism|Natonal Organization of Women]] fiercely attacked him on [[politically correct|political correctness]] grounds. The general reduced the penalty to a mere and symbolical "admonishment".<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/WN/general-backs-off-threat-court-martial-pregnant-soldiers/story?id=9399604#.TxBXDaVDCf4</ref>

*Men's instinct of protection towards women is ill-suited to war: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's famous book "On Killing" stated that the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) banned women from combat for a tactical reason: when women got killed, wounded or anyway under danger, male soldiers would completely lose control over themselves in an uncontrollable, protective, instinctual aggression, severely degrading the unit's combat effectiveness.

*Men's instinct of protection towards women is ill-suited to war: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's famous book "On Killing" stated that the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) banned women from combat for a tactical reason: when women got killed, wounded or anyway under danger, male soldiers would completely lose control over themselves in an uncontrollable, protective, instinctual aggression, severely degrading the unit's combat effectiveness. In the same book, Lt. Col. Grossman also noticed that Islamic fighters rarely if ever surrender to female soldiers. The same happens in today's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where civilians and fighters alike aren't intimidated by women.

*Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld published a paper named "The Great Illusion: Women in Combat" where he explains, among many other arguments against women in combat, how hardly any "true" war around the world has been fought by women and that even legendary accounts of [[Soviet]] female soldiers are greatly inflated.<ref>http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Courses/Reed-POL-359-2011-S3_WTW/Syllabus/EReadings/14.2/14.2.Creveld2000The-Great.pdf</ref>

*Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld published a paper named "The Great Illusion: Women in Combat" where he explains, among many other arguments against women in combat, how hardly any "true" war around the world has been fought by women and that even legendary accounts of [[Soviet]] female soldiers are greatly inflated.<ref>http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Courses/Reed-POL-359-2011-S3_WTW/Syllabus/EReadings/14.2/14.2.Creveld2000The-Great.pdf</ref>

*An "elephant in the room" of the US Military is the - alleged - rape rate of female soldiers: more than 30% of them - nearly one third, one out of three - experience some form of sexual harassment.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8005198.stm</ref> This further gets out of control overseas, where a woman is far more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than to be killed by enemy fire.

*An "elephant in the room" of the US Military is the - alleged - rape rate of female soldiers: more than 30% of them - nearly one third, one out of three - experience some form of sexual harassment.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8005198.stm</ref> This further gets out of control overseas, where a woman is far more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than to be killed by enemy fire.