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Women fighters for the Palestinians during Lebanon were reguarded from all sides as being rather brutal. During the first battle for Mazar-i-Sharif in the Afghanistan Civil War local women fought the Taliban in the streets after the Taliban walked into a Blackhawk down situation minus the blackhawks and with much bigger losses.
And there were the Dahombi women (can't spell) in Africa during the late 1800s who fought the French. Of course in all three cases they took bad losses and in Mazar the Taliban didn't have maps and kept getting stuck in alleys while people raked them with fire from whatever was on hand.
But yeah in pretty much all cases they get used as cannon fodder. Kinda of the last string before it is time to haul up the white flag.... and I guess nothing is worse in wartime then to be the last string and knowing that and then facing down a well equipped army on the attack which smells blood.
The GAM girls are facing down the large and rather brutal Indonesian army. Hell those girls don't look old enough to buy a pack of smokes.
The Iraqi policewomen are taking on the guerillas/terrorists in Iraq and the ING has taken heavy losses in the last few months.
The FARC chic is facing the well equipped Colombian army
Granted in the Somali picture even if those were guys standing there, with MP-44s, K-98s, M-14s, MAS-49s facing down Ethiopian/Cuban soldiers with their Cuban/Russian advisors backed by T-55s, T-34-85s, F-5A/Es, MiG-21s, Mi-24As and of course smelling blood knowing they have taken out all of the Somilian heavy equipment in the previous fights ... I would call them cannon fodder as well....
Of course lets no forget the nasty treatement these women often get at the hands of guys "on their side"...
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