During and after WWI, thousands of American women acted as mothers for displaced French children. A war studies research fellow weighs in with considerations for teaching this vital, often overlooked part of transatlantic wartime history.
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This compelling film examines survival and moral compromise among those caught inside the machinery of the Nazi regime.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the Women, Peace and Security initiative ‘woke’ and ‘divisive’. But history shows soldiers of all stripes have served with honour.
The Anzac biscuit is a cultural icon, invented after the first world war. But women still provided necessities and small comforts to the ANZACs.
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
The interviews in this book offer firsthand insights into women’s participation in the armed struggle against apartheid.
Women who served in unofficial combat and intelligence roles during the Afghanistan war offer brutally honest accounts of their experiences.
Nursing had traditionally been the only avenue for women to join the military. But the creation of women’s auxiliaries in the early 1940s created new opportunities for women.
Maria Lvova-Belova, wanted by the ICC along with Vladimir Putin, is one of a handful of women to be prosecuted in international criminal law.
Australian defence force bands only formally welcomed women in the 1980s – but during the second world war, women often performed with the RAAF bands.
Speculation and conspiracy theories abound about the Mozambican insurgents leaving a trail of violence in resource rich Cabo Delgado.
Men have come to dominate military combat but new evidence suggests this might be more an accident than an inevitability of evolution.
Women in the DRC are much more than victims of violence and coming together to effect change.
A vivid and remarkable body of writing is emerging to highlight the human cost of the war in Syria.
Many Yemeni women are not victims of war or just escaping or hiding. In many and contrasting ways they are actively supporting it, and not only on humanitarian grounds.
A simple signature can lead to an incredible story.
Women’s involvement in armed conflict in Peru and Colombia has a deep impact on societies. But peace processes and political aftermath rarely recognise their role.
Equality is coming to the British Armed Forces, whether it’s wanted or not.
Five thousand Australian nurses served during World War Two. One of them, Dorothy Campbell endured air raids and tended wounded men in freezing tents - but the war opened her eyes to a more adventurous world.
Women are more than capable in frontline combat – so why do we still keep believing these myths?
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Global Director Training and Technical Documentation | Smiths Detection
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Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Professor of Chinese and Japanese and Director of Asian Studies Program, Vassar College
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Research professor, Ghent University
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Lecturer in English, City St George's, University of London
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Practitioner Fellow, Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Sussex
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