We should really promote homosexuality among military personnel, as a means of improving discipline, morale, and fighting effectiveness.
Among ancient civilizations, the Hebrews may have been the most noteably homophobic. In their war against the Midianites
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se ... ersion=GNT
they kept alive for themselves captured Midianite virgin girls, and murdered everyone else.
They did annihilate a lot of the various peoples who inhabited what was then known as Canaan, but never did a complete ethic cleansing. And, they never went and conquered people much beyond their borders. Unlike the Persians, Assyrians, Greeks, Bablyonians, Romans, and just about everyone who was anyone in the region.
The Hebrews did have something of a pederastic relationship with Yahweh--their male deity. If they ever failed to do everything they could to please Yahweh, then Yahweh would punish them severely, and they would be made to feel guilty about it.
Contrast that with, for example, the military of the gay Greeks. If you read, for example, Xenophon's Anabasis,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ ... abasis.asp
you'll find that Greek soldiers were much more likely to keep alive for themselves captured boys than girls.
When he united the gay Greeks behind him, Alexander the Great conquered the Persian empire, and even entered India and Afghanistan. The sissy homophobic Hebrews never got that far, and were even conquered by the Assyrians, Babylonians and Romans.
Sodomy was a key feature of the British navy, and contributed greatly towards Brittania ruling the waves.
If American soldiers had been buggering each other in Vietnam, instead of raping girls and women and copulating with female prostitutes, then American soldiers might have had a keener attention to duty, and might not have lost the war.