دانلود کتاب Women in the military - Flirting with disaster

On the night of August 20, 1976, UN forces in Korea stood at DEFCON 1, with B-52s winging their way toward the North Korean capital, fighters warming their engines on the runway, and helicopter gunships hovering across the border. “We had rounds up the spout... and every weapon had a target,” said Major General John Singlaub. War, it seemed, was but hours away.
But then a funny thing happened. Commanders throughout Korea were flooded with requests from female soldiers for transfers to the rear. War was more than they bargained for when they joined the Army. Most fully expected to be evacuated. Many simply abandoned their posts. Others turned up for duty with their children. And some male soldiers left their posts to look after the safety of their uniformed wives or girlfriends in other units.
Surprising? No, argues author and Army veteran Brian Mitchell. And, more alarmingly, over the last two decades the problem has gotten far worse, threatening the U.S. with military disaster as women make up almost 14 percent of its active force.
Today only one-third of uniformed women believe that the military’s primary purpose is to fight wars. Nowhere in the military do women meet the same physical standards as men—not in the military academies, not in basic training, and certainly not in the field.
Mitchell lays it on the line: The women are not fit to fight, and the military brass knows it. But those who expose the truth risk their careers. Exposing “official” lies and the myths of military feminists, Mitchell uncovers the truth about...