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Skans » Yesterday, 4:02 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 4:02 pm

I agree......sort of.  In actual combat - sure.  But, in AI type drone-based combat?  It's going to be run by a bunch of fat, geeky gamers anyway. 
"I KILLED 27,000 HOUTHIS TODAY,
WHAT DID YOU ACCOMPLISH?"

Exactly the point I have been trying to make.  Mental ability is more important than grunt muscle in a lot of roles.  Warfare is as asymmetric as it has ever been.  A soldier can be a super model in a bikini giving out exploding thumb drives with a promise of a good porn video on it.  Stephen Hawkings could drive a 5000$ remote control exploding car under a multi million dollar tank half a planet away with his eyeballs.  If Jeff Bezos did it we would probably lose one of ours to friendly fire.(That's no eyeball... It's a moon)

As far as actual grunt military action, I have no problem that both genders will have to meet certain physical and emotional checkboxes. But warfare is a lot more today than just muscle and bullets. We need brains.  Trump don't like brains.

There is a song..  "I like 'em big and stupid"