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Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know About Women in the Military
by
Erin Solaro
In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen — what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat. In 2005, she went to Afghanistan on the same mission. Having spent time embedded with combat troops and conducting stateside interviews with numerous analysts and veterans, Solaro is convinced that the time to drop all remain...more
Paperback, 300 pages
Published
August 30th 2006
by Seal Press
(first published August 9th 2006)
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Women in the Line of Fire could have been an enlightening book addressing the historical role of women in the military, how that's changing today, and shedding light on the validity of arguments for and against opening opportunities to women servicemembers. Unfortunately, It isn't. In the first chapters, the author talks about how awesome she is, recounts her failed attempt to become a commissioned officer (going through ROTC only to be rejected for active duty AND reserve positions, which makes...more
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There's a lot of good stuff in here. I found particularly interesting her thoughts on the mortality of women in childbirth compared to the mortality of men in combat in past generations. There's a bit too much 'author goes to Iraq, where guys are awesome to her and she herself is awesome as well' for me. Not what I was reading for.
This book is terrible. Horribly written, non-existent methodology, baseless claims, value-laden judgments. . . if she had stuck with the topic of women in the military it might have been tolerable. Instead she pretends to also be an expert on sexual violence, Islamic culture, the Arab world, American foreign policy, and the feminist movement, all of which she knows little about and about which she draws false conclusions. I'm sure people sitting next to me on the metro thought there was somet...more
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