For sheer grotesquerie, a recent push for the feminisation of the Australian Army would be hard to beat. Former General David Morrison, mincing about in women’s shoes, was the veriest amateur when it comes to official destruction of the Army’s traditions and values of masculinity and fighting efficiency.

There may certainly in the future be expanded roles for women in operating drones and probably many other aspects of remotely-controlled, electronic warfare, but that is not what this is about.