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The Obama administration has announced its intention to change the long-standing combat exclusion policy that limited women to support jobs in the military; now women can hunker down in foxholes on the frontlines.

President Obama is dead set on eviscerating our military by pushing women to the frontlines. He isn’t the only one to blame, however—this policy is the product of a naïve culture that blindly embraces government-hosted violence in the name of equal opportunity.

But there is no evidence women are clamoring for ground combat assignments. Worse yet, there is significant reason to believe that women in combat will lead to a wide range of devastating consequences, many unforeseen and unintended by proponents, but no less dangerous.

Pentagon insider Robert L. Maginnis exposes the cold truth behind this contentious topic, debunking barefaced myths about "gender equality" in combat situations in his new book Deadly Consequences: How Cowards are Pushing Women into Combat.

Civilian feminists view ground combat as a glass ceiling for women’s equal opportunity. They could not care less about our fighting ability or the threat it poses for women and for the men they serve with.

Women in the U.S. Armed Forces are regularly held to lower training standards than men. That means that when they’re called into active combat situations, they won’t bring the same physical strength and skills training as men do. In training, male Marines are required to lift 40 pounds, while female trainees must only lift 20. If a ship is sinking and the only way to save it is to lift a 40-pound piece of equipment, the female Marines will be less qualified for the task.

On top of this disparity is a looming draft. Security experts foresee another American draft within this generation; if women can serve in combat, every male and female over the age of 18 will be in danger of being called up.

Controversial and starkly factual, Deadly Consequences is a resounding indictment of a policy that is bound to erode not only the American military, but jeopardize American security and society as well.

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Robert L. Maginnis serves as the Senior Fellow for National Security at Family Research Council (FRC). Maginnis is a Pentagon insider, from 1990-1993 as Inspector General and member of the task force that wrote Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; and currently, for more than 10 years, serving as a senior strategist for the Department of the Army, working international issues. Maginnis is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a national security and foreign affairs analyst for radio and television (including Fox News and CNN), a columnist for Human Events and the VP for operations with MESMO Inc.

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Regnery Publishing; 1 edition (July 29, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1621571904
ISBN-13: 978-1621571902
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This is an excellent book describing the insanity of putting women into combat ...

March 16, 2015

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This is an excellent book describing the insanity of putting women into combat positions. It is an easy and quick read. While not as detailed and as exhaustive a study as Kingsley Browne's book "Co-Ed Combat" (and a book I also highly recommend) Lt. Col. Maginnis touches on some points not mentioned in Browne's study. This is the most recently written book on this topic (published in 2013) and was published after the decree from the Pentagon that mandated putting women into all male combat units (or else justify why physical standards are so high that exclude females) including Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, and Marine Infantry. Lt. Col. Maginnis has the courage, unlike most authors, to call out military leaders by name who support this policy. He has the temerity to even call them cowards for doing so. He also discusses how society has become somewhat inured to placing women in combat, not knowing the inherent problems or consequences of such actions. The media have also swayed public opinion into accepting this as the right thing to do for equality. In my opinion this change of attitude has only been successful because of the brainwashing of society (from elementary school through the university) that there are no intrinsic differences between males and females...a woman can do anything a man can do. Why this may be true in the world of business, management, academics, or medicine it is not true in some disciplines such as sports or the military. To the doubters out there who question this assertion they must answer this question: What would be a better and more effective fighting force; an all male army or an all female army? If an all male army is better then how does adding women make it better? A sports analogy is appropriate. What is a better football, baseball, basketball, rugby, etc. etc. team; an all male team or an all female team? Even putting one woman on a football team would hurt that team's ability to win games. I've read statements from supporters of women in combat that assert that women have not hurt the military's ability to win wars and they give as evidence our experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. I agree. To return to the sports analogy; as long as our NFL quality military only has one or two women on the field, we can still easily defeat a high school caliber military (like the Iraqis). But when an NFL team has one or two women on the field and has to play another NFL team (that doesn't have women on the field) the outcome will be very different. We will lose!

In conclusion this is an excellent book on the topic and I highly recommend it.

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October 2, 2013

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If people ever wonder about statistics and how things are told to us by the government and the press, they should read this book that goes into the details of those "surveys" and lets us know how things are twisted by whoever wants his expression pressed to the front of an issue.
The evidence of the premise of this book is well laid out, forthright and to the point. The senior leaders of the Army truly are suspect in their full support of the issues pointed out in this book. Highly recommend it for all Americans to read. Maybe we will not make the same mistakes that others have made…….if we just listen to common sense.

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Bryan Dion

A straight forward military block of instruction

July 24, 2013

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Deadly Consequences
by Robert Maginnis
Review by COL (retired) Bryan Dion

Mr. Robert Maginnis's book "Deadly Consequences" is a straight forward military block of instruction on the faulty logic of removing restrictions on women in combat. In a linear and logical discussion Mr. Maginnis provides historical, scientific, empirical data on how he comes to a well informed opinion on the rational for his position; women are not an equal substitute for men on the battlefield in the direct fire mode. His observations and research confirm what is biologically obvious; men are different from women both physically and psychologically. That pretending that they are the same escapes all common sense, denies reality and puts both sexes at greater risk on the battlefield of the future.

He argues in his book that somehow equal opportunity for women serving in uniform has been mistakenly transformed into a strictly legal interpretation of total equality. He identifies the root cause of this transformation on feminist agendas devoid of rational thought, an elected populace government who are largely unthinking, and the nation's top General Officers who are unwilling to risk their careers by publically admitting that killing the enemy, sometimes up close and personal, is not women's work.

In his book Mr. Maginnis does not mince his words. He identifies the problem, he presents his evidence and he provides solutions.

I enjoyed the book because prior to reading it, I had not consciously given much thought to the ramifications of recent changes to lifting the restrictions on where and how women will serve in future battlefields. I have served beside women in the Balkan's, Iraq and Afghanistan and without reservations believe they have a role in future combat operations. However, as "Deadly Consequences" clearly highlights, women in infantry units, Special Forces and direct fire type units are not a combat multiplier, in fact, they are just the opposite. Pursuing a policy to change the restrictions of women serving in those roles is not justifiable in any logical discussion on the topic. Mr. Maginnis and "Deadly Consequences" is more than a wakeup call to this misguided policy change, it is a battle cry.

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Well Done. Objective truths that must be acknowledged by Congress.

January 12, 2014

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Very well written and footnoted. There is no logical argument against the author's premise. Unfortunately logic doesn't appear to be in fashion in our current political environment. Given the early reviews of Robert Gate's new book it's pretty clear that politics is trumping good judgement and our national security in the current administration. Maginnis's book provides the detail and Gate's book appears to validate the general tone and tenor of this administration's systematic disrespect and dismantling of our armed forces.

As a veteran myself but I've got no particular personal affinity for the institution but the obvious foolishness and questionable motives of our current administration as it relates to this issue should be strongly questioned by all U.S. citizens who care about the future of our country.

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