i think if they are held to the standard sure!!!! but the army has a hard enough time trying to get men to up hold this standard. if they can ruck,run,swim,shoot, climb, and carry as much i say let them. but there is also certain times of the month when a women would NEED to clean more regularly clean her self and at time that just wont be possible so unless that situation is figured out I'm going to have to say no. plus menstrual cycles will allow easier tracking of a unit in a raid type scenario.

NO!!! The reason is the whole point of the war is to protect the UNITED STATES and the armed forces being in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to stop 70-80 percent of the small arms attacks and are winning the logistics battle in Afgan due to the hard learned lessons about IED's in Iraq. Is it going easy no but the slow grinding battle is slowly turning in our direction. Now is Iraq going to be an All American loving society probably not but that is what it is as long as they have a popular government that is all that matters (by that I mean on that the majority of Iraqis support)

well put!!!! and the DF-21 is nothing more then a larger copy of the French Exo-set missile. The U.K. found this neat little toy called a 6-barrel gatling gun of 25-mm that puts out about 4k rounds a min and eats missile that cruise at mach-3 in about a 2 second burst. Plus you always have the b-2 that would be days in advance of any fleet looking for the platforms to launch said missile thats why china is trying to make it fired by a submarine but first they have to make the sub. so its still at the least a decade off. and the only other countries that could hope to invade are India,Russia, and Japan yes Japan!!! They are the third largest economy now and the 1945 armastice was repealed a few years back allowing Japan to rebuild their military. so i think asia is going to become quite the flash-point and powder keg in the coming decades

Have you look in to the Siberian dispute between them. They may be "allies" but only to the extent of trying to keep us out of their backyard.

I would agree with the fact that your average Chinese infantrymen is better at asymmetrical warfare(ambush,sneak attacks) things like that,plus they are probably better at long range raids then their American counter parts. But U.S. infantry is styled as shock troops, heavy infantry whatever you would like to call them. And historically when heavy/shock infantry meets light,skirmisher infantry the sheer weight of the shock units win out. Now granted China does out number U.S. but if you break the fight down to fire-team on fire-team 2-5 man groups a single U.S. fire-team has more weight of shot then does a Chinese fire-team. Think HMS Victory vs a couple of small brigs or sloops maybe even a frigate. This is due to communications, targeting systems, and still knowing how to read a map(I know crazy, but yes U.S. Infantry can read) Not to mention a crew serve weapon of the U.S on average out shoots the Chinese equivalent (240-B vs RPK family of machine guns) Then you have to get into tanks and other weapon systems. And this is where America will make the most gains. We all know at the out set of WW2 the biggest thing that set the German panzers apart so well was the radio and a die-hard will to push forward(mobility) well the U.S. would be able to hit the Chinese army in so many places an mostly at will with over-whelming fire superiority and that is the reason I believe America would win on the ground in a Battle. A war depending on regional or strategic would have to be fought in the Indian ocean due to the fact that machines need oil and no modern army can fight with out it. So there would be a drawn-out naval chess game there (why do you think America supports Taiwan) so we have a supply-base gas station for air-power and an open door into China's Jugular(oil from Mid-East/Africa) same thing would happen to China as did Japan and i don't think China would put up as good a fight as Japan did in WW2 either simply because they do not have the reserves of ships or the navy in place to deal with a long war. China has some(by some I mean very small, have to look very hard to find) hints as to their plan to dislodge American Naval power and to prevent them from closing the Oil shipping lanes from the Mid-East and Africa its called the Pearl-Defense Network. And if they get it up NEW GAME China holds the cards. But until then I do believe America would win do to the ability to choke China of oil. Another good point about the numbers thing 1991 Gulf war, Falklands of British vs Argentina. Another reason is Farming yes I know what the hell does farming have to do with war? Well its simple the majority of China's farm-able land is near the seas and the farms are stressed to near breaking points to keep up with feeding the population. Its a bad enough situation that China must import soy to feed pigs and grain to feed chickens which have become corner stones of the Chinese diets. Now where do they get those from I've read/heard a few different number but on average they say 60-70% of the imports of soy and grain come form America, and the figure of how much they import is about 40% of what they use yearly. So after looking into it a Regional war or skirmish if you will I think they would win. But a prolonged lengthy war we would win. If the war starts in the next decade or so. After that who knows But most likely someone would launch a nuke and that would be game point good-bye have a nice day.