War and militarism distort the economy to such an extent that social justice or welfare goals are almost impossible. It is the services for women, if indeed they exist at all, that are the first to go when governments spends more on weapons in peace or in war. So war is not removed from women and children. If you are a 'third world' woman you have a greater chance of dying because of war than any soldier fighting in war machine. The 'soft targets' spoken of during the Gulf War were the 200,000 civilians, women and children killed by technological wizardry, the great wargasm.
Military men give birth to wonderful explosions.
Klaus Theweliet in Male Fantasies states, 'Men are being extended, transformed, reborn through the use of new technical media. As one Bosnian feminist says 'these new nation states function over women's bodies. They need their national body and women to reproduce them. They are fed with hate, and with the saparation of women. They are based on violence against Others, but everyone is a potential Other, neither the 'sacred nationality' nor the 'sacred gender' is guaranteed any more.