Why Women should be Allowed in Combat Argumentative Essay by scribbler

The paper looks at the history of women in the military and relates that despite the accomplishments of women in gaining access to the Army's workforce, they are still technically prohibited from active combat by the National Defense Authorization Act FY-06 and by direct combat probability coding (DCPC) which, initiated by the Army in 1982, identified military positions considered dangerous to women and disallowed women from occupying these positions. The paper outlines the prime arguments against women holding combat positions; that women are inferior physically, women distract men in combat, claims of promiscuity and societal values, and provides counter arguments to each of these claims. The paper contends that women should not be made to suffer because of cultural conditioning, and if women want to, and apparently they can, they should be accorded equal opportunity in combat, as in every other aspect of war.