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.
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Women superheroes are Cinderellas
See the clash of women’s dreams and their costs. More are coming. The results will help shape America.
News about the battle for women’s equality in our armed forces
Summary: The military has become one of America’s petri dishes for social policy experiments, and the integration of women into the front line fighting forces has introduced stresses far greater than anything they’ve experienced before (the faux revolution from letting people out of the closet has produced a false sense of confidence in the outcome of …
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Women in combat are the real Revolution in Military Affairs
Summary: Women fight in many of today’s wars. It’s perhaps the biggest change since the invention of nukes. We have seen women as fighters in the Eritrean Wars, as suicide bombers in the Middle East, as soldiers in western armies, and as soldiers in the Kurdish army. With few historical precedents, except in myths, large …
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About the future of an American army with women as combat soldiers
Summary: Martin van Creveld discusses a timely topic: “To Wreck a Military“, Small Wars Journal, 28 January 2013. He describes the likely results of employing women as soldiers, no matter how politically and ideologically necessary. Here we examine his claims, however impolitic. His record of successful forecasts is unmatched in length and breadth by any …
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