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The fourth Hoover Book Soiree\xa0held this week in Hoover's beautiful Washington, D.C. offices\xa0featured\xa0Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on her newest book,\xa0Ashley\u2019s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield. At the event,\xa0Lemmon, a\xa0senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,\xa0and Lawfare\u2019s editor-in-chief Ben Wittes discussed the growing role of women soldiers in special operations and beyond, examining the story of CST-2, a cultural support team of women hand-picked from the Army in 2011 to serve in Afghanistan alongside Army Rangers and Navy SEALs. Their conversation\xa0dives into how the program developed, the lessons learned in the process, and why its success may provide critical insights for future force integration. Former Marine and current Lawfare contributor Zoe Bedell, who served in a similar capacity in Afghanistan as the women in CST-2,\xa0joined them on the panel. \xa0

It\u2019s the Lawfare Podcast Episode #154: Ashley\u2019s War and the Role of Women on the Special Ops Battlefield.\xa0

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