Professional soldiers are the way forward with the wars we're fighting at the moment. In MothBalls original question, he asked a hypothetical question about a WW3 type scenario. If it goes anything like WW2 for the UK, the professional soldiers will be decimated in the first few months of the war and the remaining professionals will be divided amongst drafted troops to try and give them some hard won combat experience. Limited wars are fine for a professional army, total war will be 100% reliant on a draft.
As flyingdane points out, there was a long debate on women in the military in an old thread, kicked off by an 'all female sub crew' report on 1 Apr.
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