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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219987503321

Titolo

Assessing the assignment policy for army women / / Margaret C. Harrell ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2007

ISBN

1-281-18111-0

9786611181116

0-8330-4271-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrellMargaret C

Disciplina

355.4082/0973

Soggetti

Women in combat - Government policy - United States

Women soldiers - Government policy - United States

United States Armed Forces Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"MG-590-1-OSD"--P. [4] of cover.

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Is there a shared interpretation of the assignment policy for Army women? -- Is the Army complying with the assignment policy? -- Is the assignment policy appropriate for future military operations? -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendixes: A. Aspin 1994 memorandum -- B. The difference between an assignment policy and an employment policy -- C. Opportunities available to Army women -- D. Army women deployed to Iraq -- E. Interviews with senior Army, OSD, and JS personnel and members of congress -- F. Interviews and focus groups with personnel recently returned from Iraq -- G. Army modularity, asymmetric threats, and nonlinear battlefields -- H. Female Army recipients of the Combat Action Badge.

Sommario/riassunto

The current U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy for assigning military women was issued in 1994, and the U.S. Army's assignment policy dates to 1992. In the ensuing years, the U.S. Army has undergone significant technological and organizational transformation, which has changed how it organizes and fights. There is concern that, in the course of operations in Iraq, the Army has not been adhering to its own assignment policy, as there are several important and



potentially problematic differences between the DoD and Army policies. For example, the DoD policy prohibits the assignment of women