The problem with females in combat isn't the worry that soldiers will have sex. It is that sexual relationships will undermine the unit cohesion. If your sergeant is banging the new private or even wants to what are the chances he will make her take point or will fall apart emotionally if her brains end up all over his shirt? What are the odds that the walking point thinks the sergeant is treating the pretty young thing in the unit better then him? For good or bad American men are taught that real men protect and care for women the know and love. Most Marines like to think of themselves as real men.



From my own personal experience even in none combat position females tend to get special treatment and do less work. In the Marine the term for a female was WM, Woman Marine, the standing joke was it stood for Waste of Money and there is a reason most everyone got the joke.

Sorry but how many combat fatalities have the Swedes seen in those twenty years? Better yet how many have they inflicted? I don't think the Swedish army can serve as a role model for a modern fighting force. But you are right in the sense if you have a women can fight in a modern but that doesn't mean that if you have a surplus of people looking to join the military you wouldn't have a better fighting force with mixed force then you would with a female force. I don't think any modern military has had a sustained campaign with females in the front line.