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Ashley's War

The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

Ashley's War( )
Author: Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
Read by: Mazur, Kathe
ISBN:978-1-5046-5006-9
Publication Date:Jun 2015
Publisher:HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $59.99
Book Description:

In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those soldiers were searching for insurgents, questioning the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives living at the compound. Their presence had a calming effect on enemy households, but more importantly,...
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Author Biography
Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach (Author)
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist and the author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, a New York Times bestseller published in March 2011. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to the Atlantic's Defense One site covering foreign policy and national security matters. Lemmon graduated with a BA in Journalism summa cum laude from the University of Missouri. From 1997 to 2004, she worked in the ABC News Political Unit, where she served as producer in the first year of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." She graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS), where she received the 2006 Dean¿s Award for her work on women¿s entrepreneurship.

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