I am under the impression that Israeli women do a pretty good job at the bad ass in their military. Perhaps I am wrong. It speaks for itself, some people can't do certain jobs due to physical limitations. Looking at it from my perspective, women can be every bit as emotionally strong as a man and many times are more mature. then again I would not bet on a 110 lb woman against a 180 lb man in a fight... unless the man was blind.
Israel has this policy because with its tiny population it literally has no other choice. And as you recognize Israel has some limitations on the missions women may undertake...the hardest, bloodies, dirtiest ones.
What is wrong...and so craven...about this administration's move to put women into "combat" is that it's absolutely backwards: it wasn't implemented with our defense needs or the realities of combat in mind; it was put into play for the purely political reasons of pandering to the professional feminist activist class who see the issue only as one about the so-called "glass-ceiling". So now women will get make-believe "combat commands" (if anyone believe there is no double standard benefiting women in the military's physical demands, or that physical qualifications haven't been "dumbed down" for women, they're crazy or ignoring the plain evidence).
What will happen is women will get the air-conditioned, push-button "combat" jobs. The men, who more and more are becoming the underclass "Morlocks" not just in the military but in American society in general, will do the grunt work where all the sweating, puking, shitting, bleeding, killing and dying is done...but it will all be "equal" don't you know. And guess where the stars will go. Because we have to be "equal". And after all, the women will have served in "combat" just like those men; and the men just did those low-intelligence slave-type jobs, but they're so happy singing their songs and doing their dances. Best to let the more capable women run the military things along with the those intellectuals on the political side, because neither will be tainted by actual blood and killing.
This whole move is all about the stars and who gets them. Craven assholes.