Women in War, Woman as the Aggressor

"Women largely excluded from the work of producing the forms of thought and the images and symbols in which thought is expressed and ordered... The circle of men whose writing and talk was significant to each other extends backwards in time as far as our records reach. What men were doing was relevant to men, was written by men about men for men. Men listed to what one another said." Dorothy Smith

I find myself struggaling with my process for the art i am to create in Sr. Portfolio. I have so many ideas in my head, so many images and thoughts rolling around in it that i feel as though I am becoming more and more lost in my ultimate destination of creating images. Women in War, Women as the aggressor.... I keep thinking, how am I going to put this in a visual form and what exactly am i saying. I am not proposing to say, by any image i create, that women either SHOULD or SHOULD NOT bein war or combat. I just want to make you (the viewer)think. Is it right or is it wrong for women to be in war? I don't know. I do know that women have been aggressors, are capable of being aggressors, and that the idea of women in our society as 'the aggressor' is not one that we always see - but why I ask, when we have come so far in equality and with feminism, etc. Women are in the military (many women) but in the U.S. women do not yet engage in combat (are not on the front line), But...SHOULD THEY? It this a form of oppression (repression) or do women really want to go to combat (be on the front line....some do, right?). Do women (as a whole) really want that name or characterization of aggressor, violent, or villan? Is it better for society and women or worse? And in asking these questions and knowing that women have taken this role I ask myself...why don't i see this...are women in the military really not engaging in any types of combat or violent acts...or is it just not being shown to us?
My real question though, is how do i put all these questions and all these thoughts into art? I have thought about recreating war images using women, I have also thought about projecting old war images and having women engaging in the photograph - as if yearning to be part of something we are not. Or have then just standing there, secluded from the "action", secluded from combat....I have also thought about how women can still be beautiful (considered romantically beautiful) while engaged in a horrific and violent act.
never the less, i am torn and confused