By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 13:36 EST, 20 December 2013 | UPDATED: 13:49 EST, 20 December 2013 Male soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen are now sharing most of their duties with women, and their testosterone-fueled wartime activities are bringing the worst out of many when women are in close quarters with them President Obama put his foot own on Friday – sort of – and demanded to know what the Defense Department is doing to stem the tide of military sexual assaults. But the answer, he said, can come on December 1, 2014.
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Obama set a Dec. 1, 2014 deadline for a military report on combating sexual assaults
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The move followed passage of a watered-down proposal as part of a larger Defense Department funding bill
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A Senate aide said rampant testosterone 'is how we win' wars
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The president may want to push the timetable for action past the midterm congressional election for political reasons
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A frustrated Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said she doesn't want 'to wait another year to enact the one reform survivors have asked for'
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