I've heard from army people that having a woman around changes things - because , as a man, your first instinct is to protect her, even if it goes against your remit as a soldier who's supposed to be doing something else. So I'm not sure about whether all this `gender rights' thing applies in the army, where things happen so quickly and you can get conflicted already in so many ways about what's the `right' thing to do. It does seem to me to complicate things that are already horrific. I think `gender rights' should gracefully remove themselves from warfare situations for that reason.