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Women in the Armed Forces and Conflicts: The U.S. Policies and Experience

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S268667300020075-2-
DOI
10.31857/S2686673022120021
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Arthur V. Atanesyan
Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue 12
Pages
19-37
Abstract

The gradual integration of women in armed forces, expansion of their roles and duties, accumulation of their experience in studying at military academies, serving in army units, living in barracks, and taking part in combat operations, is a matter of evolution of the armies and the societies in general. In the paper, we look at some main political, conceptual, and military trends which determined modernization and affected the further involvement of women in the United States Armed Forces in the XX-XXI centuries. The study includes an analysis of the conceptual disputes that accompanied these reforms, value conflicts within the American society over the revision of the traditional role of women, as well as conflicts of interest within the US political elites. Reforms to expand the size, rights, and responsibilities of women in the US military have often been part of an internal political conflict between the ruling and opposition elites, as well as a consequence of foreign policy conflicts with a military component in which the United States was involved. The multilevel experience and complex approach which the USA adopted while constructing the necessary balance of rights, duties, opportunities, and functions of women in the Armed Forces might serve as a model for security sector reforms in other countries.

Keywords
U.S. Armed Forces, conflicts of values and interests, women in the military service, politics of modernization, integration
Date of publication
28.12.2022
Year of publication
2022
Number of purchasers
6
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573

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