Talk about women in uniform is ill-directed

Discussion about the rightness or wrongness of women joining men in the violence of frontline military roles is seriously ill-directed.
It is neither, rather it is a conversation that avoids good sense and in being irresponsible is simply the confirmation of our infatuation with patriarchal views.

Rather than see women doing
 this, we would like to know
 why it seems we must fight.

Really, we should be discussing why we go to war and feel the need to fight at all – either men or women?
It’s easy to holler “yes, fight” and brandish a finger, as if it is a sword, pointing to moments, illustrated by libraries of books, in which we either fought or died.
Mankind has always preferred black and white solutions – simplistic kill or be killed-like answers – for despite claims of our sophisticated thinking, we are, in moments of crisis, less than intellectually adventurous.
And rather than adhere to that naive live or die tactic, we owe it to the human race, or more specifically ourselves, to expand our thinking, allowing ourselves to consider why we fight and what we can do to avoid such dilemmas.
Our societies have evolved to become behaviourally masculine, which, in particularly defined moments, has been invaluable.
Humanity, however, would never have emerged from the mists of its past without female love, care and nourishment being added to the mix, a subtle essential ingredient we are about to spill, and waste, on our battlefields.
The endurance of humanity depends upon many attributes, first among them being equality among all people and, importantly, men and women.
Stripped of all its finery, there is, therefore, no rational argument against women joining men on the battlefield – unbridled equality.
That supposition, however, overlooks two central questions about whether or not women should be allowed to die with their male counterparts on our battlefields.
Equality is about the notion of people generally, not exclusively men and women, having free and open access to the same advantages and, naturally, disadvantages.
Why, it must be asked, is it that humans appear to have a bent for bellicose behaviour that manifests itself in conflicts?
So rather than investing obscene amounts of money, time and effort into how we can subdue the other with violence, we need to refurbish our thinking, renew our philosophies and learn afresh that even though something might look dire, the best outcome will be arrived at through the embrace of collaboration, kindliness and sensitivity.
Equipped with such feelings and carrying only care and compassion in their hearts and reinforced by the principle of human well-being, the traditional idea of a soldier,  either male or female, would wither.  
Women seeking equality on the battlefields that the minds of men have wrought chase a chimera; their efforts, and time, would be better spent first understanding why we go to war at all.