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A woman's war : the professional and personal journey of the Navy's first African American female intelligence officer /
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 Ko...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Scarecrow Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Scarecrow professional intelligence education ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editor's foreword / Jan Goldman
- Introduction: We're all battling someone or something
- In the beginning-- a dream
- First assignment : a magnificent obsession
- Persistence : the key to success
- Faith
- So I'm fat-- at least my uniform fits : my personal battle of the bulge
- You're going to lose a few battles-- focus on winning the war
- Living in foreign lands : stuff they don't tell you in the travel books
- What if you're the problem?
- The importance of mentors
- Is being single the worst thing that can happen to you?
- Bloom where you're planted, or, How I became an Iraqi expert
- The forgotten Iraq War, 1991-2003
- Rivers in the desert
- Cyber warfare : a new form of terror
- Conclusion: Reflections of a retired Black woman.