Lawfare Archive: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on ‘Ashley's War’ and the Role of Women on the Special Ops Battlefield

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🗓️ 26 September 2021

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From January 23, 2016: The fourth Hoover Book Soiree, held this week in Hoover's beautiful Washington, D.C. offices, featured Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on her newest book, Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield. At the event, Lemmon, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Lawfare’s editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes discussed the growing role of women soldiers in special operations and beyond, examining the story of a cultural support team of women hand-picked from the Army in 2011 to serve in Afghanistan alongside Army Rangers and Navy SEALs. Their conversation dives into how the program developed, the lessons learned in the process, and why its success may provide critical insights for future force integration. Former Marine and current Lawfare contributor Zoe Bedell, who served in a similar capacity in Afghanistan, joined them on the panel to discuss her own experiences.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:32.6	Hello, this is Emily Day and this is a LawFair podcast episode from the archive for September
0:44.8	26, 2021.
0:47.3	On Thursday, the House passed its annual defense policy bill, which included the significant
0:51.7	provision that would require women to register for the draft.
0:55.0	For this week, I picked an episode from the archive in which Gail Lemon, a senior fellow
0:59.4	at the Council on Foreign Relations and LawFair's Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittis, discussed
1:04.0	the growing role of women's soldiers in special operations and beyond.
1:11.3	I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast January 23, 2016.
1:18.1	That was Gail Zemak Lemon.
1:20.2	On your fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, journalist and author of the book, Ashley's
1:25.2	War, the untold story of a team of women's soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield.
1:30.2	At the fourth Hoover Book Swarray this week, Lemon and LawFair's Editor-in-Chief Ben
1:34.9	Wittis discussed the growing role of women's soldiers in special operations and beyond.
1:40.8	Examining the story of CST2, a cultural support team of women handpicked from the Army in 2011
1:47.8	to serve in Afghanistan alongside Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.
1:52.1	The talk dives into how the program was developed, the lessons learned, and why its success
1:57.6	may provide critical insights for future force integration.
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