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A Woman's War
The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer
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2009
Summary
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Her 28-year career included hands on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo, and most recently at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense's newest challenges: Cyber Warfare. At her retirement, she was the highest ranking African American female in the Navy. A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer is an inspirational memoir that follows Gail Harris's career as a naval intelligence officer, sharing her unique experience and perspective as she completed the complex task of providing intelligence support to military operations while also battling the status quo, office bullies, and politics. This book also looks at the way intelligence is used and misused in these perilous times.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-6793-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-7100-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
270
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Editor’s Foreword No access
Introduction: We’re All Battling Someone or Something . . . No access
Chapter 1. In the Beginning . . . A Dream No access Pages 1 - 15
Chapter 2. First Assignment—A Magnificent Obsession No access Pages 16 - 30
Chapter 3. Persistence—The Key to Success No access Pages 31 - 58
Chapter 4. Faith No access Pages 59 - 78
Chapter 5. So I'm Fat . . . At Least My Uniform Fits: My Personal Battle of the Bulge No access Pages 79 - 93
Chapter 6. You're Going to Lose a Few Battles . . . Focus on Winning the War No access Pages 94 - 108
Chapter 7. Living in Foreign Lands: Stuff They Don't Tell You in the Travel Books No access Pages 109 - 124
Chapter 8. What If You're the Problem? No access Pages 125 - 140
Chapter 9. The Importance of Mentors No access Pages 141 - 167
Chapter 10. Is Being Single the Worst Thing That Can Happen to You? No access Pages 168 - 178
Chapter 11. Bloom Where You're Planted, or How I Became an Iraqi Expert No access Pages 179 - 195
Chapter 12. The Forgotten Iraq War, 1991–2003 No access Pages 196 - 217
Chapter 13. Rivers in the Desert No access Pages 218 - 227
Chapter 14. Cyber Warfare: A New Form of Terror No access Pages 228 - 257
Chapter 15. Conclusion: Reflections of a Retired Black Woman No access Pages 258 - 268
