Product Description

From today's sex-scandal headlines to tomorrow's battlefield disasters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1092087 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.33" h x 6.39" w x 9.31" l, 1.49 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 390 pages

From Booklist
The disaster Mitchell deplores has so far been on an individual scale: a few suicides, forced retirements and discharges, and the trials of drill sergeants. This litany is hardly a bill of good organizational health, and the public policy question has thus become whether to press forward with gender integration of the armed forces--or to pause and reconsider the wisdom of the effort. Conservatives such as Mitchell take succor from second thoughts emerging from such neoliberal tastemakers as columnist Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. Mitchell, hardly a guarded writer, disputes every argument ever put forward to open the military services to women, and for evidence he reviews most of the studies and commissions that have examined the issue since the 1970s. This information underlies the claims bruited about amid sensational media flaps (les affaires Hultgreen and Flinn). Mitchell's well-researched, though opinionated, book can be balanced with a benign view of the issue, Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military by Linda B. Francke . Gilbert Taylor

Ingram
Kelly Flinn, Aberdeen, Tailhook . . . the list of scandals and controversies involving sex in the military is ever increasing. Now former Army officer Brian Mitchell offers a sober, thoughtful, but scalding analysis of how the integration of women into our armed forces has proved a national security nightmare.