#women soldiers

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Women Soldiers - Elaine Shemilt - 1982 (short film)

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Life Finds a Way .....

Even in war!

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Frances Clayton was a woman who enlisted in the Union Army under the pseudonym “Jack Williams” in order to serve alongside her husband during the Civil War. Her husband was killed during the Battle of Stones River December 31, 1862, Clayton continued to fight after watching her husband die at her feet. Photographed betweeen 1861 and 1865.

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Virginie Ghesquière was a French woman who disguised herself as a man and fought as a soldier in Napoleon’s army. Her story formed the basis of many popular tales, but how much of it was true? In this post, I try to separate fact from fiction.

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Nakano Takeko (中野 竹子, April 1847 – 16 October 1868) was a Japanese female warrior of the Aizu Domait, who fought and died during the Boshin War. During the battle of Aizu she fought with a nagitana (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants who fought in the battle independently. After taking a bullet in the chest she had her sister behead her, so that the enemy would not take her as a war trophy!

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The Road to Singapore

The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 was swift and brutal. It took the British and Australian garrisons of the lightly defended peninsula by surprise as the Imperial Japanese Army stormed towards Singapore. In February 1942, female troops of the Fortieth Army followed in the wake of the victorious male Nippon forces to set up logistics posts and round up cut off enemy soldiers. Here Captain Akari Shimada prepares to interrogate Sergeant Harry Cunliffe of the British 53rd Brigade after he had been brought in, tied up uncomfortably by his wrists and elbows by scout Private Ichika Sugiyama. “He threw down his rifle and begged for mercy as soon as he saw me, Captain-san,” grinned Ichika triumphantly, “so I bound him like the coward he is and brought him to you!”

“Excellent work, Sugiyama,” replied Akari and seized the quivering Englishman by his hair. “I will enjoy making this cur talk to me and ensure our road to Singapore is made easier and more glorious!” “Please, miss …” began Cunliffe in a plaintive voice. “Oh gag him, Sugiyama!” Captain Shimada said in disgusted impatience to her subordinate. “I cannot bear to listen to this white man’s pitiful entreaties!”

“Yes, oku-sama!” replied Ichika with a laugh, tearing a thin strip of cloth from the captured soldier’s shirt to tie around his mouth.

Harry Cake is a superb line drawing femdom artist who plies his trade on Deviant Art. He specialises in military adventure scenarios, depicting Amazons, tribal female warriors, and woman soldiers defeating and capturing male opponents. This is my interpretation of the story behind this Pacific War drawing. It is well worth checking Harry out.

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Women soldiers are a sign of societal collapse. Change my mind.

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Two Norwegian soldiers at the Russian border.

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Ari Mason - Sleep Still

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War Women: From Legendary Ancient Warrior Women To Modern Warfare | Timeline

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Women Soldiers - Elaine Shemilt - 1982 (short film)

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Ukrainian soldier standing next to a giant crater near the frontlines.

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Pauline Cushman was a Union spy and scout during American Civil War, who was captured and sentenced to death by Confederate officials. She was rescued at Shelbyville by Gen. Rosecrans' Army. She was awarded the rank of brevet major by General James A. Garfield, and made an honorary major by President Abraham Lincoln for her service to the Federal cause, and became known as "Miss Major Pauline Cushman." Photographed between 1861 and 1865.

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Countries with the Most Women Soldiers #army #womensoldiers

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Book Review: ‘The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice‘

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Repelling a multifront attack, abetted only by dwindling supplies, negligent regional allies, and limited external support (Kobani). Fording the turbulent Euphrates in the dead of night in anticipation of a mine-laden and sniper-beset shoreline (Manbij). Laying siege to a strategically valuable dam, the nation's largest, for two and a half months (Tabqa), situated fewer than thirty miles from ISIS's stronghold. And exhausting all manner of physical and mental strength to serve as the spearhead of regional militia seeking to pry open and overtake Raqqa. The fighters of the YPJ (women's protection units) exhibited remarkable fortitude and resilience, and their efforts proved pivotal in counterbalancing a world on fire. Lemmon's THE DAUGHTERS OF KOBANI is an informative and entertaining read that sits snugly in the middleground of illuminating nonfiction for policy novices or casual strategists. This isn't a book for grinding academics, and this isn't a book for skilled militarists. This book views a limited conflict, in a tucked away region of northern Syria, for the span of a few years, through the eyes and experiences of a handful of dedicated women, belonging to an ethnic minority (Kurds). Every injustice, travail, and disdain perpetuated by the thoughtlessness, violence, and corruption native to this conflict is etched into the hearts and minds of these individuals. Readers seeking more should hunt for supplemental analysis elsewhere. But for their efforts, the women who comprise the YPJ, the growing, specialized partition of the YPG (people's protection units), the battle is personal. These women defied and rebuked the threat of domestication to take up arms against terrorists both organized and not. Lemmon's journalism assiduously documents the YPJ's origin and the personalities that guide and ground its philosophy: Azeema, for example, is boisterous and confident, but also inscrutable and prudent ("We'll sleep when the fight is over," p. 73); Rojda's "quiet calmness" is purportedly mistaken as "passivity," but people "usually made that error only once" (p. 13); and Znarin is dutiful, but not to the patriarchic obligation through which she's lost everything, but to "the cause of women's rights and, as a consequence, Kurdish rights" (p. 23). THE DAUGHTERS OF KOBANI outlines the quest for self-governance (of the Kurdish people, before and during civil war), the quest for authenticity and viability (of extended militia, among enemies and allies old and new), and the quest for individual purpose (of the women whose lives and homes were ripped apart by varying components of black-flag terrorism). Remarkable, then, is Lemmon's interweaving of the fragmented capacity (or willingness) of U.S. policymakers with the difficult reality of on-the-ground, street-to-street combat. All the more so when the point of view for said exchanges pivots between sniper positions with broken radio signals or fiendish and frantic amphibious operations aboard borrowed watercraft. This book strikes a purposeful balance. For example, readers encounter the fantastic necessity of unearthing the historical truths, convenient or otherwise, about the philosophical influence of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and its founder Abdullah Öcalan. The long-imprisoned Öcalan's progressive intellectualism seems radical and unlikely to western ears (e.g., gender equality, freedom of expression, full suffrage, economic fairness). But the dissident's tenets of human equality and of striking a balancing with the demands of ecological necessity are entirely rational and fundamental to others who's legislative and military options are all that remain when opposed and oppressed by autocrats and terrorists. Understandably, this approach may not suffice for readers hunting for more detail than personal stories can provide. Regional experts will demand more intricate maps of the infernally tense Manbij campaign, which saw waxing and waning success as Rojda and others crossed the Euphrates at night. Or perhaps demand a few more details on the Berthnahrin Women's Protection Forces, the all-female Assyrian militia. Other, book-savvy researchers will surely demand more context for the sprawling Syrian Civil War, proper, during which the book's events take place. Lemmon focuses on the military history and political corollaries associated with the YPG and YPJ, but spends little time on the influence and effectiveness of neighboring or oppositional parties. For example, the Democratic Union Party's Charter of the Social Contract, dated to January 2014, is a remarkable document. But the Charter has clearly been amended over the better part of a decade. Whether those changes are progressive or regressive, goes unstated. Altogether, THE DAUGHTERS OF KOBANI is accessible and edifying. The author's promise is to glimpse the peculiar and inspiring, and the book does well to deliver. The itinerant nature of international war reporting obliges a few gaps in the narrative, but for all intents and purposes, Lemmon composed a memorable story about principled people whose statelessness was only the beginning of their story.

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