European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is Gui Scho Antof would like to think that someday we will no longer proscribe limits on what a person can or cannot do because  Brig. Gen. Evelyn Foote t is the military fair to women the military is a male institution and unless its very nature changes women will continue to be indigestible this will be especially True so Long As it is possible i pretend that women can be excluded from combat Judith Hicks Fliehm arms and the enlisted woman by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau he last thing american military women might need to Champion their cause one might think would be some Brainy civilian professor raised on and committed to the notion of non violence. Judith Stiehm could have should have been that woman. Somehow As it happened she really was t. My generation was captured by the notion of non violent resistance says Stiehm author of the just published arms and the enlisted women. But As she prepared to write the Book she began to Ponder if somebody was in danger and i had the Chance of protecting them of saving their life by killing those who threatened that person would i be Able to sacrifice other people for my principles i floundered on  so this peace Loving political scientist with a doctorate decided that if put in that position she too would assume he life and death role of the military defender if that was the Only Way to save lives to protect the innocent. And she says that is what the military thinks and does and justifies itself for Stiehm is troubled by the Altitude of her intellectual friends who seem to ignore the pragmatism behind a military Force. Most of my quote unquote friends in the University and so on were basically anti military without  she says. She recalls How students would be assigned a Book such As Morris Janowiz s big Book the professional Soldier and they just would t read it. These were people that were supposed to be intellectually curious. But they would refuse to even consider the other  while Stiehm s Way of thinking and no nonsense Way of expressing it May prove refreshing to military leaders weary of pummelling from Academia her latest Book won t keep All of them smiling for Long. In fact in the tradition of her earlier work. Bring me men and women this latest writing is also provocative since women cannot know what it is like in Sis  Brian Mitchell author of the controversial Book weak link. The Feln Littlon of the american  Point thai i must make that it s a matter of the sum of the disadvantages with having women in the service versus the sum of the advantages of having women in the  and in the final summation he says we d be belter off without  refutation of Mitchell s claims has come not just from women s groups but also from High level male military leaders. To this criticism Mitchell says the real reason Why they re not Ever raising any objections to women is it will Cost them politically but he admits that military men who have countered his statements May Well believe what they say. We be selected out anybody who does t  Mitchell says he resigned from the army in 1387 at the rank of Captain after seven years of service because he had other things to do such As writing not because he was disgusted with the feminized service. I was put off a the fact the military requires intellectual conformity on this women s Issue. I feel i was being asked to  is  author Judith Hicks Stiehm their absence it is hard to estimate just How disruptive their presence  Stiehm writes clearly however it alters the military if service is no longer a Way to demonstrate manhood. It alters the assumptions of military incentive systems to have Mother soldiers. It alters our thinking when we conceptualize men As armed and women As unilaterally disarmed yet surviving perhaps even  but if her message to the military s overwhelmingly male Hierarchy is harsh she is equally forthright with women ii alters our View of the military As a fair institution and a source of Opportunity when we realize that it is currently an even better Deal Lor women than men because it provides equal pay for comparable work numerous benefits and still exempts women from combat " Stiehm s latest work has drawn raves from feminists such As noted activist Betty Friedan. Who says the professor s assessment of this Man s army reveals the reasons for enlisted women s ambivalent status and throws a new Light on some of America s real military  asked if she qualifies As a feminist. Stiehm responds i be used that description it s quo of Many i  As would be expected a feminist professor comes out solidly in support of placing women in combat roles. The simple fact of the matter is Stiehm argues that whenever you do have a War women do fight. You make Laws against fighting women in peace  but Ever time the War is in somebody s Home country the women do fight. Russia Algeria even moslem countries. In world War ii. The russians used whole units even one of All widows. They were alleged to be extremely valorous. The Only military in the world that is completely open no rules against women is Canada and that s new. It s  she says. Provost of Florida International University Stiehm says she Hopes arms and the enlisted woman will encourage Public thinking on the military As a serious  by pulling women in you create enough friction in the ideas about the military that you constantly Are asking questions about it " she says the United Stales military is becoming More of a political Power. The democratic and Republican parties and particularly the republicans Are using mailing lists developed in the Pentagon in their policy campaigns. In most countries in the Worl i the military is a political institution. We in Pijie United states think it is not. Nevertheless it s becoming so before our very  september 6, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 15