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Card #1
Source: The Economist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: women intimidation
Note: John Hamre, the deputy defense secretary, said that women are still facing intimidation and harassment in the military. |
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Card #2
Source: The Economist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: money
Note: for a long time it was thought that women would cost 100 times more than male comrades. |
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Card #3
Source: The Economist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: how many
Note: there are currently about 200,000 women serving in the military |
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Card #4
Source: The Economist. Women of the War: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: separation
Note: "A panel of experts, headed by a former senator, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, concluded last December that the army, navy, and air force should follow the model of the marines and keep the sexes apart during basic training." |
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Card #5
Source: The Economist. Women of the War: the armed forces.
Author: Gale
Page: 1 |
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Topic: argument
Note: Platoons must be one gender only and so should barracks |
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Card #6
Source: The EConomist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: over ruling
Note: "Senator Sam Brownback led calls for barracks at least to be completely separate, only to be overruled by a fellow Republican, Olympia Snowe of Maine." |
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Card #7
Source: The Economist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: Angry women
Note: Some women like Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton see the training issue as inseparable from an even hotter potato: should women be sent to the frontline? |
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Card #8
Source: The Economist. Women of the War: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: restrictions
Note: their are some but very few restrictions for women fighting on air or sea but there are many more restricting land combat and submarines |
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Card #9
Source: The Economist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale
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Topic: How women feel
Note: "According to Charles Moskos, the doyen of military sociologists, most enlisted women have no wish to be moved any closer into harm's way." |
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Card #10
Source: The Economist. Women of the war: the armed forces
Author: Gale |
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Topic: race
Note: it's predicted that combat forces will remain mainly male and increasingly white |
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Card #11
Source: Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front (Gale)
Author: Woody West
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Topic: Penalizing
Note: "Because the armed forces rely on women in a variety of jobs, they argued, it is unfair to penalize female careerists by excluding them from combat, a prime criterion for promotion to high rank." |
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Card #12
Source: Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front. (Gale)
Author: Woody West
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Topic: no barriers
Note: a thing evolved that women should encounter no barriers to employment or careers. |
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Card #13
Source: Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front. (Gale)
Author: Woody West
Page: 1 |
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Topic: no difference
Note: no difference between civil and military work, a job is a job |
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Card #14
Source: Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front. (Gale)
Author: Woody West
Page: 1 |
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Topic: reducing people
Note: military numbers are being reduced, so some people think women should return to non combat roles |
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Card #15
Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front. (Gale)
Author: Woody West
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Topic: Proposition
Note: ending combat restrictions for women would defuse sexual harassment |
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Card #16
Source: Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front. (Gale)
Author: Woody West
Page: 1 |
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Topic: what do we actually want
Note: "We want the men to treat women as women, but at the same time we're decreeing that women function as men and be treated as such in the gritty drills of preparing for and going to war. This is unalloyed nonsense, not acknowleded by those who urge that someone elses's daughter go to war. |
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Card #17
Source: Insight on the News. Sex and power on the front. (Gale)
Author: Woody West
Page: 2 |
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Topic: delicate point
Note: if all combat roles open up to women, then they would be subjected to the draft if we have one in the future. |
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Card #18
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 1 |
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Topic: military advisory study
Note: the military advisory commission did a diversity study that recommends the Pentagon get rid of the rule that keeps women from serving directly in combat. |
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Card #19
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 1 |
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Topic: what's recommended
Note: study recommends that women be allowed to serve in combat in order to create a "level playing field for all qualified service members." |
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Card #20
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 1 |
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Topic: what is allowed currently
Note: Currently, women are allowed to serve in support combat roles but aren't allowed to be assigned to any unit smaller than a brigade whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground. |
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Card #21
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 2 |
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Topic: performance
Note: there are no relevant instances of women performing effectively in combat situations on the ground |
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Card #22
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 3 |
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Topic: arguement
Note: The military's exclusion of women in combat roles is out of sync with the realities of present day warfare |
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Card #23
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 3 |
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Topic: Loop holes
Note: women in Iraq have been engaging in combat for self-defense. |
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Card #24
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 3 |
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Topic: frequent argument:
Note: "One frequently-cited argument in favor of the current policy is that having women serving in direct combat will hamper mission effectiveness by hurting unit morale and cohesion." |
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Card #25
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 3 |
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Topic: evidence
Note: "little evidence that the integration of women into previously closed units or occupations has had a negative impact on important mission-related performance factors, like unit cohesion." |
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Card #26
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 3 |
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Topic: logical outcome
Note: "Lory Manning of the Women's Research and Education Institute insisted the move to put women in combat is 'a logical outcomeof what women have been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the Army and Marines have been essentially ducking the policy. They come up with the [term] 'attaching' someone to a unit as opposed to 'assigning,' but they've been doing it for nine years now." |
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Card #27
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 3 |
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Topic: to the enemy
Note: peril that people serving in combat support find themselves in is different than taking the battle to the enemy |
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Card #28
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dae Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: physical strength
Note: "the military cannot disregard differences in physical strength and social complications that would detract from the strength, discipline, and readiness of direct ground combat units. These troops attack the enemy with deliberate offensive action under fire. ... No one's infantryman son should have to die because a support soldier nearest him cannot lift and single-handedly carry him from the battlefield if he is severely wounded under fire. Most male soldiers have that physical capability. Female soldiers, no matter how competent and brave, do not." |
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Card #29
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: personal experience
Note: Ron Ray, who served in Vietnam said this-"From my own personal experience, I can attest to the fact that physical combat, close combat, infantry, artillery, armor combat, all are profoundly more demanding than any sport, and there is no place there for women combatants." |
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Card #30
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: investigation
Note: after eight months of intense research the commission on the assignment of women in the armed forces concluded that the DOD should continue the ban on the assignment of women to combatant aircraft, land combat and special forces units, and most combat ships. |
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Card #31
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: clinton administration
Note: "under the incoming Clinton administration the DOD began assigning women to combat aircraft in April 1993, which was followed by a repeal of the policy exempting women from most combat ships. |
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Card #32
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4
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Topic: Cohesion
Note: cohesion would suffer in the male-dominated combat sphere with the introduction of women |
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Card #33
Source: The New American. Feminizing the America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: against women
Note: interference with male bonding that would come with the presence of the opposite sex |
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Card #34
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: against women
Note: men would be too preoccupied with their natural instinct to protect women |
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Card #35
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4 |
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Topic: against women
Note: Potential for inappropriate relationships between male and female soldiers to escape combat duties |
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Card #36
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 4and5 |
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Topic: even if
Note: "even if some women are strong enough to handle the physical demands of combat, the introduction of factors such as sexual entanglements and jealousies....would make the forward commander's job more difficult." |
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Card #37
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 5 |
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Topic: testifying
Note: some commanders of special operations forces have testified and said that even in training women degrade the readiness, cohesion, and effectiveness of their units because of their innability to meet physical demands |
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Card #38
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 5 |
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Topic: risks
Note: women are at twice the risk for injuries |
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Card #39
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 5 |
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Topic: risks
Note: women are at nearly five times the risk for stress fractures. |
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Card #40
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 5 |
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Topic: Canada
Note: "Of the 103 women recruited for infantry training after Canada repealed its combat rules in 1989, only one woman succeeded in meeting the physical requirements necessary to complete the training." |
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Card #41
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 5 |
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Topic: desert storm
Note: "56 percent of personnel deployed in Desert Shield/Desert Storm with mixed-gender unitis said that some women in their units became pregnant just before being deployed, or even while ther were in the Persian Gulf, making these women un-deployable." |
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Card #42
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 6 |
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Topic: another view
Note: military policies must be based on actual experience and sound judgment, not doctrinaire notions of sexual equality unsupported by human experience and history. |
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Card #43
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force.
Author: Dave Bohon.
Page: 6 |
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Topic: final conclusion
Note: The Commission on the assignment of women in the armed forces came to the conclusion that "the military does not need women in (and) should not assign women to combat" |
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Card #44
Source: The New American. Feminizing America's fighting force. (Gale)
Author: Dave Bohon
Page: 6 |
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Topic: frontline?
Note: Admiral Mike Mullen said that in present day warfare, there isn't a clear line between fighting on the frontlines and fighting on the sidelines. |
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Card #45
Source: The New American. Emasculating the military. (Gale)
Author: George C. Wallace
Page: 1 |
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Topic: debate over?
Note: to many women, women in combat isn't an issue anymore because it is happening. |
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Card #46
Source: The New American. Emasculating the military. (Gale)
Author: George C. Wallace
Page: 1 |
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Topic: just to do it
Note: For some, putting women into combat isn't because they want to better our military, it's because they want only to be equal with men |
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Card #47
Source: The New American. Emasculating the military. (Gale)
Author: George C. Wallace
Page: 1and2 |
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Topic: serious about winning
Note: No nation serious about winning wars has ever sent their women off to do the fighting for otherwise qualified civilian men. |
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Card #48
Source: New York Times Upfront. Should women be allowed in combat? (Gale)
Author: Elaine Donnelly and Catherine Ross.
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Topic: allow women
Note: some say women aren't physically or emotionally fit for battle, yet most women say they are proving that wrong on the battle field |
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Card #49
Source: New York Times Upfront. Should women be allowed in combat? (Gale)
Author: Elaine Donnelly adn Catherine Ross.
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Topic: army surveys
Note: 90 percent of enlistedd women have said they oppose involuntary combat assignments on the same basis as men. |
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Card #50
Source: New York Times Upfront. Should women be allowed in combat? (Gale)
Author: Elaine Donnelly and Catherine Ross
Page: 2 |
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Topic: opportunity to live
Note: in direct combat women would not ahve an equal qpportunity to survive or to help fellow soldiers to survive. |
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Card #51
Source: New York Times Upfront. Should women be allowed in combat?
Author: Elaine Donnelly and Catherine Ross
Page: 2 |
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Topic: medical reasons
Note: women lose more duty time due to medical issues |
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Card #52
Source: Contemporary Review. Women warriors.
Author: Gerard J. De Groot
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Topic: women as killers
Note: arguments against women physcally, hide the social taboos against women as killers |
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Card #53
Source: Contemporary Review. Women warriors
Author: Gerard J. De Groot
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Topic: what war does
Note: war does not liberate women,instead it locks in traditional gender values. Masculinity is to heroism as femininity is to dependent helplessness |
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Card #54
Source: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication. Women warrior?
Author: Gale
Page: 1 |
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Topic: recommendation
Note: military leadership diversity commission has recommended that women be allowed to fight alongside men in frontline combat. |
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Card #55
Source: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication. Women warriors?
Author: Gale
Page: 1 |
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| Topic: military leadership diversity commission said, "It's time to create a level playing field for all qualified service members." |
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Card #56
Source: Current Evenst, a Weekly Reader publication. Women warriors?
Author: Gale
Page: 1 |
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Topic: more obligations
Note: soldiers who are less physically able make the male soldiers have more obligations and makes them do more than they should. |
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