Ashley's War

By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon,

Book cover of Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

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In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those soldiers were searching for insurgents,ā€¦

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1 author picked Ashley's War as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There is a very good reason this book has been adapted into a movieā€”it tells the very real story of women who circumvent Congressional law to fight alongside Army Rangers, Navy SEALS, and other special operations teams in Afghanistan. Female Engagement Teams (FET) take part in secret missions, under the dark of night, ā€œattachedā€ to special ops and not only proving they can keep up, but they are mission essential. Itā€™s about friendship, loss, the bonds made in war, and a march towards equality, as combat roles werenā€™t open to women at the timeā€”but these women did it anyway. Greatā€¦

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