A Woman's War
The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2009
284 pages
978-0-8108-7100-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-7100-7 (9780810871007)
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Gail Harris | Pam McLaughlin
A Woman's War
The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer
Book
12/2009
Scarecrow Press
€71.60
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Persons
Gail Harris spent 28 years in the Navy working as an intelligence officer.
Pam McLaughlin is a retired teacher and has been working since retirement as a ghost writer and copy editor.
Pam McLaughlin is a retired teacher and has been working since retirement as a ghost writer and copy editor.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's Foreword
- Introduction: We're All Battling Someone or Something . . .
- Chapter 1. In the Beginning . . . A Dream
- Chapter 2. First Assignment-A Magnificent Obsession
- Chapter 3. Persistence-The Key to Success
- Chapter 4. Faith
- Chapter 5. So I'm Fat . . . At Least My Uniform Fits: My Personal Battle of the Bulge
- Chapter 6. You're Going to Lose a Few Battles . . . Focus on Winning the War
- Chapter 7. Living in Foreign Lands: Stuff They Don't Tell You in the Travel Books
- Chapter 8. What If You're the Problem?
- Chapter 9. The Importance of Mentors
- Chapter 10. Is Being Single the Worst Thing That Can Happen to You?
- Chapter 11. Bloom Where You're Planted, or How I Became an Iraqi Expert
- Chapter 12. The Forgotten Iraq War, 1991-2003
- Chapter 13. Rivers in the Desert
- Chapter 14. Cyber Warfare: A New Form of Terror
- Chapter 15. Conclusion: Reflections of a Retired Black Woman
- About the Authors
