Pentagon Opens All Combat Positions to Women

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This is long overdue. Given the fact that robotics and advanced technology is making gender irrelevant to fighting wars.

No it's not.  The idea that we'll ever get rid of the need for boots on the ground is one that keeps recurring and keeps getting refuted.  There are, and likely will always be some military tasks that require pure physical strength.  The basic physiological differences between the genders ensure that there will be some tasks in which the proportion of personnel capable of doing them will skew towards males.  Even when technology causes the level of strength required to do certain tasks to decrease, it makes available new capabilities that previously were impossible to now be done by those at the highest level of physical strength.

That said, as long as they don't weaken the standards to promote gender equality in all military specialties, I have no problem with ending de jure restrictions.  Just don't expect there to not remain MOSes in which there are de facto restrictions.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No t that I think a military draft is ever going to be likely again, but with this change, the military is considering asking Congress to change the draft to include women, since one of the arguments against drafting women will soon be gone.  There are also a couple of lawsuits on the issue, but I doubt they'd get anywhere, especially with the current SCOTUS.

Still, if the draft is opened up to females, that will remove one of the major stumbling blocks to the ERA the first time it was sent to the States.  It might soon be time to try again. If nothing else, the attempt would force Republicans to go on the record as being opposed to equal rights for women if they attempt to block it.