Commentary As the esteemed classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hansen recently wrote, the “U.S. military has turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.” “Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed his ‘revulsion’ after Carlson questioned the role of women in combat. Keeping women mostly out of combat has been the U.S. military’s centuries-old orthodoxy until just a few years ago,” Hansen notes. My regard for the United States military is high, and I’m grateful for its continuing protection of my country, Canada. During the Cold War, Canada fell under the nuclear and conventional forces umbrella of NATO. Now, we still have trouble finding the will and finances to procure military hardware, and our three main branches are weak, compared to their power while helping to defeat the Axis enemies from 1939 to 1945, when women played auxiliary roles—important roles, but they were not in combat. Today they …