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Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Mitchell
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 754294
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0895263769
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0082
EAN: 9780895263766
ASIN: 0895263769
Publication Date: January 25, 1998
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From today's sex-scandal headlines to tomorrow's battlefield disasters.
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 factual errors abound September 3, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The majority of the arguments presented by the author, while backed up by statistics and numbers in the text, are skewed to represent the authors opinion. the author writes about womens motivations, not based upon interviews with women in service, but based on his own opinion.
Two Thumbs Down August 30, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Disguised as a scholarly effort, this book reeks of chauvinism. Mitchell distorts the truth (something he ironically accuses feminists of doing) and makes claims for which he has no basis. For a more accurate look at women's role in the military, see D'Ann Campbell's "Combating the Gender Gulf" (about women's military service in the first Gulf War) or Judith Hick's Stiehm's Arms and the Enlisted Woman. Both works bring to light the complexity of women's roles in the military and give a much more balanced assessment of their history and future in the Armed Forces.
 outstanding March 21, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Insightful, evocative and direct...trust a former soldier to get right to the point. With a seemingly endless number of statistics and various investigative committee results, Mr. Mitchell makes such a case against the extensive use of women in the service that it begs the question why we are even still entertaining the notion that they can pull their own weight. As a deployed soldier, I can attest with first-hand experience to the veracity of Mitchell's conclusion that the presence of women is hampering our fighting ability. Thankyou to the author for saying what needs to be said in an age where effectiveness of military units seems to play second fiddle to the desires of political constituents.
It is sad we need such books, but need them we do. November 6, 2005
16 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book which details in a very entertaining, but accurate way, the fact that women's inferior strength and robustness is a hazard to not only themselves but also jeopardises the safety and undermines the morale of those who are forced to work with them - which obviously has potentially very serious repercussions for the effectiveness of all branches of the military. In my own country, the UK, the politicians, at the request of the UK's armed services , have finally been forced to admit defeat on this issue after a decade of 'gender blind' egalitarianism imposed upon them by politically correct fantasy. As from April, 2006, women will be removed from many positions and placed in their own platoons, and their training regime and subsequent duties will be "sustainable and commensurate with their physical profile". Kind words and gentle diplomacy indeed. But, alas, it seems that is what is necessary in the contemporary world at present, to merely state the truth and declare what is blatantly obvious to all but the most idelogically brainwashed. And this applies to many other fields of human endeavour besides the military.
So true about what is happening October 23, 2005
17 out of 29 found this review helpful
This book tells the truth that others are afraid to tell simply because telling the truth nowadays puts people's job on the line. Many people bash this book because they don't like the fact this is what is going on right now in our armed forces. My father served in the military for over 20 years as a combat aviator and also feels strongly about the issue. Not only him but also his brothers who also served as well as some friends of mine in the service who are actually serving in Irag and Afgan right now. It's sad to see the greatest military power that the world has ever seen is being destroyed from the inside and the attitude of the warrior must be lost because of political correctness.
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