In March, I attended the National Defense Industry Association’s 2010 Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference & Exhibition. If you have not attended one of these NDIA events, they are a great opportunity to witness the give and take between the defense industry, the military’s internal development centers such as the U. S. Army’s Research, Development and [...]
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First Female Four-Star General in U. S. Military
Posted in Gender & Sexuality, tagged Ann E. Dunwoody, GlobalSecurity.org, Women in the Military on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
According to GlobalSecurity.org, the first woman in U. S. military history has been named a four-star general: Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody was promoted just hours before taking the helm of the Army Materiel Command, a Fortune 100-sized organization with nearly 130,000 servicemembers at 150 locations worldwide charged with equipping, outfitting and arming the service’s [...]
Gender and Warmaking: ‘The Women of Counterinsurgency’
Posted in Gender & Sexuality, tagged Anthropology, Bob Martinage, Counterinsurgency, Danger Room, Emma Sky, Erin M. Simpson, Janine Davidson, Michele Flournoy, Montgomery McFate, Noah Shachtman, Sarah Sewall, Spencer Ackerman, Tammy Schultz on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Noah Shachtman of Danger Room drew my attention to a recent article entitled “Women Prominent in Defense Movement.” Part of a continuing series called “The Rise of the Counterinsurgents,” Spencer Ackerman profiles leading counterinsurgency theorists and policymakers. What may surprise some is how well women are represented in COIN community: There’s no one answer for [...]
