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But, when women begin to enlist, the battle for real equality within the military will have just begun.
Beyond the explicit constraints that are expected – women will probably have to secure approval from their legal male guardians, and may be limited to non-combat roles – there is the need to dismantle the military’s rigid patriarchal systems.
That aspiration seemed impossible during my childhood, when women could join the military only as doctors, certainly not in combat roles.
The inclusion of women in the military was viewed as an experiment that could go either way, and the PAF greeted it only reluctantly.
Separate facilities, better leave structures, and altered work schedules have served to make this growing cohort of women in the Pakistani military more comfortable.
In the United States, 15% of military personnel are female.
In India, women comprise just 5% of military personnel, and a mere 4% in Afghanistan.
Boosting women’s participation further may become even more important as the nature of the military’s tasks changes in many regions.
To enable women to meet their full potential as military assets, persistent discrimination and other challenges – related, for example, to sexual harassment, health, and work-life balance – must be addressed.
More generally, gender segregation undermines the esprit de corps that is so important to military service.
Allowing women to join the Saudi military is a major step forward – one to which women have contributed greatly.
The United Kingdom’s recent decision to boost defense spending highlights the growing recognition that strong military capabilities will be needed to uphold Europe’s security and sovereignty.
The US stands as the supreme example of this: a country that devotes $450 billion per year to military spending allocates only $12 billion per year to development assistance for poor countries.
The US increased foreign aid by perhaps $4 billion a year at the same time that it increased military spending by $150 billion annually and cut taxes by trillions of dollars.
Unger argues that all of today’s democracies “are flawed, low-energy democracies,” in which “no trauma” – in the form of economic ruin or military conflict – means “no transformation.”
Since then, China has built six more artificial islands in the South China Sea and steadily expanded its military assets in this highly strategic area, through which one-third of global maritime trade passes.
It has constructed port facilities, military buildings, radar and sensor installations, hardened shelters for missiles, vast logistical warehouses for fuel, water, and ammunition, and even airstrips and aircraft hangars on the manmade islands.
At the heart of Shell's oil reserves scandal is the desire for profit and the elaborate mechanisms that it nurtured in collaboration with corrupt military dictators over the years to ensure that its operations yield enormous dividends at the expense of ordinary Nigerians.
Shortly after General Ibrahim Babangida seized power in a coup in 1985, the military government signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Shell and other oil companies.
Politicians, diplomats, and generals in conflict-ridden countries typically treat these crises as they would any other political or military challenge.
According to an Associated Press report, citing Foreign Office statistics, Libya purchased from the United Kingdom “about £40 million ($55 million) worth of military and paramilitary equipment in the year ending September 30, 2010.”
Certainly, that military hardware came in handy over the last six months.
The approved goods included nearly 400 shipments of explosive and incendiary materials, 25,000 aircraft parts, 56,000 military electronics components and nearly 1,000 items of optical targeting and other guidance equipment.”
Even for a military man like me, the latest scientific evidence on global warming makes for a chilling read.
When I was a major general in Bangladesh’s military, my job was to avoid conflict while planning for the worst-case scenario.
And, from the perspective of the military, the consequences of global warming constitute the worst-case scenario.
Those glaciers are disappearing, and the world’s most populous countries – all with significant military capabilities, including nuclear weapons – will find themselves facing an existential crisis if too little water is available.
When I meet with my colleagues at the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change – generals and admirals from around the world, all with career-long experience in military planning and operations – I am struck by the similarity of our concerns.
We cannot risk the local, regional, and global security threats that climate change will generate if politicians, civil-society groups, industry, academia, the military, and all other sectors of society do not act together and act now.
By contrast, Romney promises to “restore” America’s greatness and international power, which he proposes to do by boosting American military force.
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