Men, women and war - Professor Martin Van Creveld

Throughout history women have kept away from the front line of battle. With a few exceptions, the role of women in wartime has always been one of support for the men who do the fighting. But now, at the beginning of a new century, all that has changed, and for the first time ever women are beginning to win places in the front line. It is a revolution that feminists everywhere have praised.However, as the author argues here, while the influx of women into the army might be an interesting social experiment, in military terms it is a disaster. In this ground-breaking and controversial new book, Martin van Creveld argues that the job of waging war should be left exclusively to men.