title: Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster
author:  Brian Mitchell 
description: The disaster Mitchell deplores has so far been on an individual scale: a few suicides, forced retirements and discharges, and the trials of drill sergeants. This litany is hardly a bill of good organizational health, and the public policy question has thus become whether to press forward with gender integration of the armed forces--or to pause and reconsider the wisdom of the effort. Conservatives such as Mitchell take succor from second thoughts emerging from such neoliberal tastemakers as columnist Richard Cohen of the<i> Washington Post</i>. Mitchell, hardly a guarded writer, disputes every argument ever put forward to open the military services to women, and for evidence he reviews most of the studies and commissions that have examined the issue since the 1970s. This information underlies the claims bruited about amid sensational media flaps (les affaires Hultgreen and Flinn). Mitchell's well-researched, though opinionated, book can be balanced with a benign view of the issue, <i>Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military</i> by Linda B. Francke . <i>Gilbert Taylor</i>
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  He came home for a mission...  
   ** _Will he end up with a family?_**
  
  
  Army ranger Lee Remington didn’t think he’d ever go back to Wickham Falls,
  home of some of his worst memories. Now, returning home to help his sister,
  he’s shocked by a powerful attraction to military widow Angela Mitchell...and
  floored by this mother of toddler twins, who accepts his proposal. But as he
  preps for his ready-made family, there’s one thing Lee forgot to tell her...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She didn’t recognize the man who’d come home.
  
  
  Instead of his army ranger uniform, he was dressed all in black and looked
  tall, dark and dangerous. She stared at him, transfixed, as he leaned close.
  “You look amazing.”
  
  
  His warm breath and sensual voice reminded her how long it’d been since she’d
  seen herself as a woman—a passionate woman with physical needs.
  
  
  “Stop it, Lee.”
  
  
  “Stop what? You know I’ve always liked you.”
  
  
  “And I’ve always liked you.”
  
  
  “As a friend. Has it ever occurred to you we could be more?”
  
  
  Ang