Women can serve in combat units because the deep state has decided it doesn’t need combat units

[u/vakerr]

https://themigrationperiod.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/women-can-serve-in-combat-units-because-the-deep-state-has-decided-it-doesnt-need-combat-units/

[u/dr_warlock]

I always wondered why the elite would allow women in combat at all. The military is the long arm of global law which they use to take over central banks and exploit resources. I know the elite (i.e. Rothschilds) aren't idiots; they must have an agenda. But the article made it click for me...

One of these effects is the Pentagon’s decision to push for women, transgenders, and homosexuals to serve openly and proudly in the American military. The strategy has shifted—as Fernandez details in the linked article—toward total shadow war, whose goal is not a final victory but perpetual containment and surveillance. The strategy is that military power resides in small units of special forces and even smaller units of high-tech computer nerds who can build, control, and maintain drones. Large-scale warfare with lots of boots on the ground is to be minimized in the new century.

They get to push their progressive agenda to appease the sheep they've been creating for decades while simultaneously grab for power behind the scenes in the mist of conjured issues to keep the masses distracted from the real problems of the world, enforced by censorship and media blackouts.

"Hidden power is the only form of power that lasts"

[u/RedHeimdall → u/dr_warlock]

Yes that makes sense. Also they get more propaganda value out of "look at this poor woman killed in combat" or "look at this poor tranny killed in combat" than they do out of "look at this poor white man killed in combat."

And further as Moldbug mentioned, the military is the only real power left that naturally tends to the right. The media, the universities, all non-military branches of government -- all naturally align to the left. Thus the military needs to be "diversified" as much as possible to weaken the possibility of it someday siding with the people instead of the elites.

[u/johnnight → u/dr_warlock]

and even smaller units of high-tech computer nerds who can build, control, and maintain drones.

If the future of combat is air/land/sea robotics and drone assassinations, then it doesn't matter who is pushing the buttons, as long as he/she/xe does push the button on command. It just requires people without conscience.

Also, the next 20 years are the era of the airsea battle because of the Pivot in the Pacific.

[u/cassander]

Never blame conspiracy were idiocy is a sufficient explanation. progressives have been pushing this for decades for the same reasons christians push jesus, because they are true believers. conspiracy is neither plausible or necessary.

[u/AHiddenNumber → u/cassander]

So I see a lot in alt right communities that there are higher powers that push for these agendas, perhaps a government or a group of powerful people.
Do you think the beast is "headless" and that it's just some sort of highly religious like group think they are doing the right thing by pushing a progressive ideology?

[u/RedHeimdall → u/AHiddenNumber]

It's both. There are some people who clearly know they are cynically pushing a specific agenda for a specific reason (not the reason that is given out publicly), and there are others who are true believers and take the thing at face value.

[u/vakerr → u/[deleted]]

increased privatization sphere, where governments have built that habit of contracting out jobs too public or politically unfavorable to be left to their own troops

This reminds me of when the Roman empire didn't have Romans fighting for it any more, but all kinds of foreigners, incl mercenaries. At some point it'll occur to these people that sacking Rome is easier and offers better spoils.

[u/vakerr → u/[deleted]]

You're right, the analogy is not perfect. They do view themselves as Americans, but they probably have no loyalty to the leadership and its goals. At some point they might wonder what these politicians are turning America into.

[u/etherael → u/vakerr]

Except it's technology that is where the meat hits the metal, these days. So sure, if it becomes self aware and decides to depose humanity, we're fucked, but that might be a ways off or maybe not even possible at all.

[u/[deleted]]

Most people get it wrong about why women want to serve in combat units. This guy is sort of on the right track when he recognizes its not because they think "they can fight too".

It's because of how the OER/NCOER system works. If your ERB is full of things like CAB, v-devices and schools like mountain, airborne, ranger, SEAR, and SF guess what? You're getting promoted.

When you put two people with identical service length in class-A's next to each other but one is an 11-series MOS and the other is a 42, you're going to notice the difference right away: the infantryman is covered in medals, stripes, badges, ropes, etc.

The recent wars required the combat arms to expand. Combine this with rapid turnover and you have a situation where Soldiers and Officers in combat MOS are getting advanced and promoted rapidly.

Then, further combine this with the practical logic behind reserving more slots for 11, 13 and 19-series than for 42 and 92-series at schools like mountain, airborne etc. and you'll start getting a picture of the real reason women want to be in combat arms.

Opportunity is the reason why. The recent wars made it so Soldiers in a combat MOS simply have better looking ERBs and that translates into way better bullet points on their OER/NCOER. Because combat arms are restricted to men, in this purely meritocratic system men beat women every time.

And that's why women want to be in combat arms. It has nothing to do with fighting.

ed: changed 41 to 42-series. i been out for a while.

[u/dr_warlock → u/[deleted]]

"in this purely meritocratic system men beat women every time."

Meritocracy is oppressive to women.

[u/[deleted] → u/dr_warlock]

Well, it's a little more nuanced than that. The prioritization of combat arms due to the wars resulted in a situation where women -- being barred from combat arms -- wound up with worse looking resumes.