Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster [Hardcover]

Brian Mitchell (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 1997

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

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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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 390 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895263769
• ISBN-13: 978-0895263766
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #605,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time that someone told the truth!, July 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster (Hardcover)

This book is OUTSTANDING! It shows how "political correctness" is bringing about the ruin of this country. It shows that women are NOT equal to men in all respects and that women cannot do all of the same jobs as men with equal effect. It shows that women will NEVER have the mindset necessary for combat. It shows how a few militant (but far from military) feminists, with the support of the liberals who caved in to their will, are bringing about the downfall of one of the greatest military powers that the world has ever seen. This book should be a wakeup call for all Americans but, with the liberal mindset currently in style (as well as in office), I'm afraid that it may be too late.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Whole Truth, December 7, 2009

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This review is from: Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster (Hardcover)

Brian Mitchell knows his subject. He's an Airborne Ranger qualified Infantry officer, which is something that none of the detractors on here can say. When I read this book, I was a young man headed off to West Point. I had vague notions about women in the military and was not in favor of women serving in combat. But I felt that the government couldn't restrict women's access to public institutions (this was just after the Citadel and VMI were forcibly opened). This book exploded those notions in my mind and drastically changed how I viewed the feminization of our Armed Forces. My subsequent experiences as a cadet and as an officer in both all-male and mixed gender units (in combat in Iraq and in garrison) underscored the basic truths of this book. All-male units are superior in every way to mixed gender units, which are absolute disasters of sexual tension and misconduct, poor discipline and wretched physical fitness. Many of us also mourn the loss of the great honor and traditions that were destroyed at the nation's Service Academies, leaving them a politically correct farce far from their glorious past.

Mitchell's book is a bit dated now. Many of his vignettes from the 1970's - 1980's are long forgotten or footnotes to the fact that women are serving overseas in the War on Terror. Regardless, this is an excellent primer for someone wanting the non-politically correct truth of how 35 years of feminist policies have had ruinous and pernicious effects on the military's cohesion, fitness, morale and readiness.

18 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that should have been written long ago, June 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster (Hardcover)

This book soldified my own personal (generally bad) experiences with women in the Navy. I knew it was not working, but now I know WHY it's not working. It finally brings the truth out about many of the lies that both the feminists and the government have been telling us. And some of the examples match what I have seen personally - no matter how poor their performance, women will get by where men will not. It also makes me wonder why so many in the pentagon are so gutless....