Ballad of the Unknown Pilot
A wounded Soviet pilot in a crippled fighter remembers the young women who flew biplanes and lived in a barn.
women soldiers
Women superheroes are Cinderellas
See the clash of women’s dreams and their costs. More are coming. The results will help shape America.
Women and children make a revolution in military affairs
With few historical precedents, except myths, large numbers of women and children in war is a revolution in military affairs. No new tech will overcome this.
Must we lower standards to recruit women soldiers?
The US military’s broken personnel system is one of DoD’s worst problems. This shows how deeply it is broken, and points to a proposal to fix it.
Before “Wonder Women” there was “G I Jane”
Hollywood worked long to create today’s support for opening all combat roles to women in the military. On film and TV we watched countless women kick men’s butts. Here James Bowman reviews one of the two breakthrough films of 1997 about women warriors.