Leadership: February 4, 2003

Archives

In December, 2001, the U.S. Army asked a panel of senior officers to examine the usefulness of training male and female recruits in the same basic training companies. Only recruits headed for combat units (infantry, armor, artillery, Etc.) are trained in all male companies. Mixing men and women in basic training has long been seen as an inefficient sop to feminist politicians. When the panel finished their study, they agreed that the policy was inefficient, but recommended that it be kept anyway. Left unsaid was the acknowledgement that no one really wanted to get involved in a spat with Congress over this. The military has long since learned that as long as some stupid policy doesn't get a lot of people killed in an obvious way, just keep your mouth shut and do what the politicians want.

 

X

ad

Help Keep Us From Drying Up

We need your help! Our subscription base has slowly been dwindling.

Each month we count on your contributions. You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
  2. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  3. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close