"New and Noteworthy Paperback" -- New York Times' Sunday Book Review, 10/2001
"Noteworthy Non-fiction of 2000" -- New York Times' Sunday Book Review,
...an impassioned defense of the warrior culture and the vision of masculinity it sustains. -- The New York Times Book Review, Carol Gilligan
...identifies the "risk-craving, "edge-courting soldiers" on whom success in the field, and in the planning rooms, depends. ...does not rule out the aptitude of some women for the killer role... -- Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2000
...tough-minded writer...ruthlessly dissects American military policy...in her outstanding new book, The Kinder, Gentler Military.... -- The Detroit News, March 29, 2000
Col. David Hackworth (Ret.) author of About Face and Hazardous Duty What the British longbow did to the French army at Crecy in 1346, the failed military policy on gender integration has done to the U.S. armed forces at the end of the twentieth century: near total destruction. Gutmann's brilliant book must be read by all caring Americans and its cogent message be urgently transmitted to all our lawmakers. -- Review
Gutmann...tours boot camps and aircraft carriers; haunts the hearing rooms of the military's gender advisory boards; and talks to soldiers, sailors and airmen (male and female)....and she raises questions that demand to be answered. [She] has written a highly charged polemic that rips through public relations cant like a tank breaking telephone poles...Still, Gutmann is no extremist in these matters. She offers a set of policy recommendations -- one of which would be to eliminate sexual recruitment quotas -- that would keep the armed forces open to any and all who meet the necessary high standards. ....Since the latest phase of the integration of women began, the armed forces have not had to fight a long, tough war against a strong foe......If such a war comes and the gentler military does not do well, Gutmann's hard-headed book will have provided an early-warning signal. -- New York Times, March 24, 2000
Stephanie Gutmann's new book, The Kinder, Gentler Military, debunks the received wisdom [that resistance to raising the proportion of women in the military is inherently sexist] through first-rate reporting on the reality of the contemporary military. There is, as it turns out, a simple reason why academic studies and official commissions cannot get at the truth in this area: in the wake of the 1991 Tailhook scandal, which ended the careers of many navy officers who were found to have been insufficiently vigilant in rooting out sexual harassment, the military has become one of the most politically correct of all American institutions. -- Francis Fukuyama, author The End of History and the Last Man, Commentary, February 2000
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