https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/07/its-not-time-for-women-to-serve-in-the-infantry-yet/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:01:42 -0400<![CDATA[Infantry and armor soldiers alone do virtually all the intimate killing. Here’s where the issue gets hard for me. Intimate killing is done in small units, normally squads and teams. In these engagements they fight and often die not for country or mission but for each other. We borrow a phrase from Shakespeare’s “Henry V” and term this phenomenon the “band of brothers effect.” This is the essential glue in military culture that causes a young man to sacrifice his life willingly so that his buddies might survive. Contemporary history suggests that U.S. infantry units fight equally well when made up of soldiers of different ethnicities, cultures, intelligence and social background. The evidence is also solid that gays make just as good infantrymen as do straight men.]]>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:30:47 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/07/its-not-time-for-women-to-serve-in-the-infantry-yet-n280538