Zelensky poses for Vogue photoshoot
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Many countries permit women in the military, but I do not know of a single one that allows them to become front line military. I do not believe there is a single place in the world where women are permitted to be the first line of defense, they're usually like, the 8th or something.
Today, Rojava does that. I know it's an unrecognised state that didn't even formally declare independence (and currently threatened with total destruction by Turkey) but they do that.
They have an actual radical feminist ideology there, especially radical since they're in a ME Muslim country. But even they keep them strictly separated, in their own units, in their own armed force (YPJ).
They also recruit (conscript) child soldiers, which is way more normal, for both the region/culture and rebel armies generally.
What do you consider front line?
Infantry (IE the first line of ground troop defense)
From what I know, women can be in artillery units and medic units and other types of support units, but they cannot be infantry. (At least I know for sure that's true in Canada and the US)
Women can definitely be infantry in the US, unless they changed something recently.