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Article: Why the U.S. should gender its counterterrorism strategy.
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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THE U.S. MILITARY should address gender issues when designing counterterrorism strategies aimed at winning hearts and minds. As governments and development organizations around the world have already discovered, the "gendering" of policies, programs, and activities can improve the effectiveness of long-term strategies. Unfortunately, terrorist organizations are also discovering the benefits of selectively forgetting gender prejudices and abandoning traditional assumptions. During the first quarter of 2008, there were seven women suicide bombers in Iraq compared to only six in all of 2007. (1) And in January 2008, British authorities warned ...