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Better a Late Response Than Never
Yesterday someone was brought to my blog by a Google search for “how would integrateing the infantry be bad.” Answer: It wouldn’t.
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The Afghanistan Rant Adam Weinstein Was Meant to Write
You should really drop what you’re doing and read Adam Weinstein’s latest on Afghanistan. Both major political parties in America have perpetuated the fiction that American ingenuity emanating from...
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If Infantry Culture Precludes Integration, Just Change It
Credit: 9GAG I found this picture on a clickbait site. It’s a joke poster, meant to be hung up in a bar, but I think it really speaks to the cultural origins of behavior. I was struck by the idea that...
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Studying War and Gender, Cont.
Last September, I wrote a piece about Joshua Goldstein’s academic survey of the relationship between war and gender. I finally finished reading the book. It’s a fantastic piece of scholarship, even if...
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Occupational Fitness Standards Are More Than a Good Idea For the Military
Last year, the Marine Corps introduced a policy requiring female Marines to pass the version of its physical fitness test (PFT) currently used for males. The change was supposed to take effect this...
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When Freaking Out Over ‘Lone Survivor,’ Please Don’t Widen the Civil-Military...
Mark Perna fought in a Marine Corps operation associated with the events of the upcoming movie Lone Survivor. Perna is not pleased with the movie trailer: I watched thirty seconds of this Hollywood...
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Support for Integration of Women Dips in German Army
The German army (Bundeswehr) opened all combat positions to women in 2001 after Tanja Kreil won her lawsuit against Germany in the European Court of Justice. The Court found that Germany was in...
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One Less Bit of Evidence Against Combat Integration
In July 2012, Marine Captain Katie Petronio made waves by publicly opposing integration of women into the infantry (is she supposed to be on CNN in uniform making a political argument like that?)....
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James Fallows on Comparisons to the Remsburg Moment
James Fallows has posted several blogs about Cory Remsburg’s acknowledgment during the State of the Union address focusing on ”what is right about this young man, but wrong about the spectacle.” I...
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Gender in Security Roundup
Sexual Harassment in the US Military Last Wednesday, the US Department of Defense released its first annual sexual harassment report (PDF with my annotations). Understanding sexual harassment is...
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