A Brief Note Concerning Gender War has often been a sexist environment, but death is an equal opportunity employer. Gwynne Dyer tells us: Women have almost always fought side by side with men in guerrilla or revolutionary wars, and there isn’t any evidence they are significantly worse at killing people—which may or may not be comforting, depending on whether you see war as a male problem or a human one. With but one exception, all of my interviewees have been male, and when speaking of the soldier the words of war turn themselves easily to terms of “he,” “him,” and “his”; but it could
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