It needs men, as it needs "horses and bayonets." They don't want boots on the ground anymore. They are trying to minimize that, so compared to the whole scale of military missions, it would be an absolutely necessary minimum. It's the age of missiles and drones. At most plane attacks. It's machinery. Even the most fragile women can master working with machinery.
Not surprisingly, you live in a PC-driven, liberal fantasy world where there's no inherent difference between men and women. First, there will
always be boots on the ground no matter how much technology we have. And even within technological parameters, there's something to be said for the male psyche being better for warfare than the female psyche. What you and other liberals want to do is completely revamp the military based on affirmative action, essentially feminizing it, rather than what will really make it most efficient.
