Joseph Watts
EN1420
Raspante
May 6, 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Mackenzie, M. H. (2012). Let Women Fight. Foreign Affairs, 91(6), 32-42.

An essay is presented on women serving in direct combat roles in the U.S. military. The author presents a case for changing U.S. law to permit women in all military roles. She notes that many women have served in the U.S. military, including in war zones, and says that the distinction between combat and non-combat roles has eroded in the context of contemporary warfare. She discusses the main arguments against women in combat, including their performance and effect on unit cohesion.
Author Megan Mckenzie, in the article, “Let Women Fight,” from the journal Foreign Affairs, discusses the ability of women to serve in full combat units. She is avid about changing the laws to allow women full integration into combat infantry units, due to the history of women serving in combat roles in the U.S. Military (McKenzie 2012). McKenzie, argues that the lines that once existed, dividing combat roles from non-combat roles, in the U.S. Military has become blurred with today’s combat (McKenzie 2012). Due to this phenomenon, women have found themselves in the heat of combat, making them natural candidates for the allowance of women to fulfill these roles on a more permanent basis (McKenzie 2012).
Simons, A. (2000). Women Can Never `Belong' in Combat. Orbis, 44(3), 451.
Presents views on the debate over the exclusion laws in the United States which preclude women in the military from serving in front-line or behind-the-lines units. Obstacle to gender integration; Opinion on military training; Way to deal with arguments about women being too physically weak for combat.
In the article, “Women Can Never ‘Belong’ in Combat,” author Anna Simmons, discusses the unit cohesion necessary for men and women to serve in combat oriented positions