Lawfare Archive: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on ‘Ashley's War’ and the Role of Women on the Special Ops Battlefield
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What Was the Weight of the Raids?
Women had been on these operations for years, but they had been ones and twos plucked from other jobs that had almost nothing to do with it. There was a worry that there was a real operational risk by putting people out on these kinds of combat operations who hadn't had the opportunity to access almost any of that training. So this was a response to that. And i really think the a intelligence and the a local reaction to the raids were two big pieces. I'd spent a lot of time in afghanistan with a young women who had lived through the tallbon years, and had a very distinct view of those. The first book i did, the dressmaker of cark
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