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Article: Better military leadership can't change human nature; men, women should not serve together.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- November 17, 1997
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KRT FORUM (AT-RISK)
By Robert L. Maginnis
Evidence continues to mount that integrating the sexes in the nation's armed forces is ill-advised. The Pentagon's response to recent sex scandals is to demand better leadership, but leadership cannot curb the natural sex drive or the desire for romance. The sexes must be separated for the sake of America's military readiness.
Not everyone agrees, of course. ``I personally believe we can't go backward to gender segregation,'' said Gen. William Hartzog, who heads the Army's Training and Doctrine Command. Hartzog and like-minded Washington politicians sat on the sidelines while women-in-combat ...