Unfortunately, Price's analysis is right on target. Cohesion is the glue that holds small units together. It is built and sustained through constant and close association and it is based on total trust and confidence in one another. Legions of military experience have found that favoritism and double standards destroy this glue. Open homosexuals in forced intimate military units create the likelihood that sex will manifest itself in sexual competition.
Sexual competition results in favoritism and double standards that defeat cohesion.
In such an openly sexually competitive culture, the majority of heterosexuals find being stripped of privacy before homosexuals repugnant. There is nothing prejudicial about that fact. Finally, there is little likelihood that American military leaders will embrace open homosexuality anytime soon. A recent survey of military officers found that three of every four oppose open homosexuality in the service and more than a quarter would leave if the policy changed. Besides, the facts about open homosexuality, which compelled Congress to pass the 1993 law, have not been lost on a highly educated officer corps.