&gt; Let&#x27;s be frank : the probability it&#x27;s a &quot;she&quot; is so close to 0 that we can say &quot;he&quot; without passing for horrible misogynists<p>Not really.  And that&#x27;s not because I&#x27;m some PC-police kind of person, either.  Women are being allowed into more and more places in the military (in the US, other countries are far ahead of us on this) and I suspect that there are tons of them in the intelligence community.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Women_in_the_Israel_Defense_Forces" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Women_in_the_Israel_Defense_Fo...</a><p>Finally given that it&#x27;s &quot;always&quot; &quot;bad guys&quot; that do this kind of thing if you&#x27;re playing a strategic game at some point you have to realize that women have a huge advantage; since it &quot;can&#x27;t&quot; be a woman who does that, women can absolutely get away easier and more cleanly than men can.  And if you really are doing stuff at a national security level where it never becomes public anyhow then there&#x27;s no reason not to use women to their full potential aside from squeamishness on the part of the people giving the orders.  I suspect that isn&#x27;t a huge roadblock; either you&#x27;re a sociopath who&#x27;s fine with sending people to their death because &quot;who cares?&quot; or you&#x27;re a true believer in which case everyone can fight for the cause.<p>Now I&#x27;m not suggesting that women commit violent crimes at the same rate that men do by any means.  The statistics bear out that they don&#x27;t.  But at a state-sponsored level I would imagine that a lot of bets are off.