women and war

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Hakki wrote
>
>Bravery and motivation are not the problem. In fact I remember the British
>MOD did a study about womens' readiness to kill in combat and couldn't find
>anything to fault them. But today's infantry is very much different from the
>19th century. Nowadays, the less an army is prepared to take casualties, the
>harder it trains its troops, thereby raising the threshold of required
>physical performance.
>
>_______
>
>Yeah. I'm willing to bet women do great in revolutions and guerilla 
>warfare. I used to be a nearly perfect shot (with a 38 special) !!! 
>:)
>
>Joanna

A review of _Women & Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945_, 
<http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer11_1/review_jancar_webster.html>.

"Vietnamese Women in the War: A Review," 
<http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/VietnameseWomenInTheWar.html>.

"Colombia's Female Fighting Force," 
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1742000/1742217.stm>.

Etc.
-- 
Yoshie

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