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This book provides a rare glimpse into the real-time thoughts of a soldier - a junior Intelligence Officer thrown into the front lines of history.

This book breaks relatively new ground in demonstrating the traumatizing effect war can have on our female soldiers, sailors, marines, and air warriors.

Why is this an important read?

Desert Storm was the precursor of the wars to come; the wars that have so far consumed many years of the opening of the 21st Century where more and more women combatants are taking on key roles in waging our nation's wars; and they are consequently bearing both the physical and psychological wounds of war.

The author takes the readers informatively through the stateside buildup, her deployment, the Desert Shield phase, and the counterattack of the ground phase of Desert Storm. As a combat intelligence officer, her war began before infantry boots and armored treads rolled up Iraqi forces on the sands of Kuwait. Her unit was responsible for analyzing the terrain, identifying enemy troop positions, and key enemy command and control targets, supply depots, and lines of communications, all of which were necessary for the pre-invasion and invasion softening-up activities.

Read this book if you seek a new and different perspective on war. Read it, especially if you are one of the growing-band of women war-fighters.