Your first post there shows you realize the percentage of men vs women in the military.
Then your second post assumes that once women are in combat roles they are going to increase significantly? Yeah that doesn't make a bit of sense.
Here's the argument I have:
1. Women aren't frequently in the front line of combat ops.
2. Women who are already a
minority in active duty enlisted (14%)represent a tiny minority (1%) of war casualties primarily because of #1.
3. If women were more frequently in the front line of combat ops, they would represent a larger minority of war casualties.
4. If a greater percent of casualties were women, war fatigue among the general population would be higher.
5. If war fatigue is higher, we will be less likely to invade the next country that doesn't pose a real threat to the US.
Probably the least defensible point is #4, which khorum made a strong case against. However I think it is still true. It would be convenient for me to simply disregard khorum's point that an increase in casualties have come with an increase in public support for escalation, but I think it's a clear causal relationship in many situations. Ex: Pearl harbor saw a massive spike in US casualties that was the casus belli for our intervention in WWII. However in other situations, those where the public see us as the aggressors or don't see a clear defense of US and our interests there isn't that causal relationship.
Does that mean we should start sending less effective female fighters into the worst combat situations? No. My stance on women in combat is clear: They shouldn't be given preferential treatment and shouldn't be integrated into units if they reduce that unit's efficacy, especially not for gender equality bullshit reasons. There are clear differences in a man's and woman's physicality that make forced equality in combat situations dangerous and ludicrous.
There is a reason why mixed-gender professional sports are very rare. However, if it is done for whatever reason it may present an upside I didn't see mentioned in this thread yet.