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Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman  

June 2013

Sex and the Army Have a Long History

My mother told me that it isn’t polite to discuss sex, money, or politics. I have minded all her other admonitions, but these topics are the fodder of historians and columnists, and I am both.

The whole issue of rape in the military has many more sides than the outraged press, the brave women on the Armed Services Committee, and the Defense Department are addressing. We need some perspective before we can fix the problem.

The very idea of having women in the prof more...

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