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Military Sexual Assault Debated on Senate Floor

The Senate is currently debating the National Defense Authorization Act on the Senate floor. Discussion is heavily centered around the issue of military sexual assault and the related amendments to the...

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The Army Wants Pictures of ‘Average-Looking Women’

Matt Yglesias flags a Politico article on internal Army PR guidance to submit pictures of “average-looking” women servicemembers instead of “pretty” ones in articles on military gender issues: “In...

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Four Female Marines Set to Graduate From Infantry Training Battalion

Business Insider snags an Instagram pic of the first four women Marines to complete the requirements of the Infantry Training Battalion: I know there must be some lesson here about how social media...

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The Army Wants Pictures of “Average-Looking Women,” Ctd.

The concern I voiced earlier is being realized. Colonel Arnhart’s words are quickly being twisted to make it appear that she was voicing a personal opinion about the higher competence of ugly women....

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Senate Debating Military Sexual Assault Bill

There’s a pretty impressive debate going on over Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA) on the Senate Floor right now. Here’s the link to the video feed (why C-SPAN...

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Here’s Some Video of the Female Marines in Infantry Training

Stars and Stripes reposted a Marine Corps video featuring some of the female Marines in infantry training at Camp Geiger. Some folks are not going to believe their eyes.

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Gays, Character, Service, and the Air Force Academy

Over at Gawker, Adam Weinstein reports in his Gawkerish style that a “gay conversion therapist” just happens to perform quantitative analysis on “character” and behavioral issues at the US Air Force...

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Bad Arguments Against Women in the Infantry: “They Don’t Want It”

In an NPR segment on the three female graduates of the US Marine Corps’ Infantry Training Battalion, Staff Sergeant Billy Shinault pulls out a familiar canard: Shinault doubts many women will even want...

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More Bad Arguments Against Women in the Infantry

I want to follow up on my earlier post about bad arguments against integration of women into the infantry. Last Thursday, William Saletan published some commentary on the female graduates of the Marine...

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Now the NFL “Supports the Troops” Too

Philip Giraldi calls out the NFL for shamelessly parroting the “fighting for our freedom” trope in order to capture market share: When I was in uniform back in 1968 through 1971, no one ever came up to...

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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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