Word: binkin
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Fears that the limited measure adopted last week will lead to a major battlefield role for women are probably exaggerated. "I really doubt that it will open the floodgates," says Martin Binkin, a Brookings Institution expert on women in combat. "I don't see a lot of women eager to go." But some women do want to do the job, and in an era in which high-technology blurs battle lines and brains may edge out brawn, there is no good reason to deny them the chance...
...allowed more flexibility in their studies. They can take elective courses either in their major subjects or in the humanities and sciences, and of course spend a good deal of time absorbing the new battlefield thinking that has emerged over the past two decades. The Pentagon, says Martin Binkin, a defense expert at the Brookings Institution, "literally rewrote the textbook on war. It's a new ball game in every way. The battle cry is 'Fight smart!' " The merits of that approach are written all over Operation Desert Storm...
...soldiers are married, up from 40% in 1970. Since the U.S. buildup began, some 14,000 of them have learned, via Red Cross telegrams, that their wives have given birth. "You've got a real debate going now," says Martin Binkin, a military manpower expert at the Brookings Institution. "Some say an older soldier with a stable family life makes for a better soldier. On the other hand, someone with dependents has lots to think about, especially if he's in the desert for six to eight months and is worried about a sick child...
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