These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win.
We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). “The commanders in the field fighting the actual wars had their hands tied by this policy.”Ī gripping chronicle by a daring pilot with an indomitable spirit.
“The incontrovertible fact was that this current policy banning women from being in combat was not good for the military,” writes Hegar. “The Ground Combat Exclusion Policy was a civilian-issued order in the first place,” put into effect to pacify opponents of the Air Force’s decision to lift the ban on “females in combat cockpits.” In response to the lawsuit, which was supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the policy of banning women from ground combat was reversed by the Defense Department in 2013. In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union contacted her, and she enthusiastically accepted an invitation to become a plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against gender discrimination in the military.
A civilian once again, Hegar returned to her home in Austin, Texas, married, and took on a job as a consultant on health issues, but her fighting days were not over. Despite her unquestioned qualifications for the job, she was turned down because of a law that excluded women from ground combat, ending her career in the service. When she was no longer able to function as a rescue pilot, she applied to deploy with ground forces as a special tactics officer.
Her courageous exploits also earned her the respect of her fellow officers. Awarded a Purple Heart and a Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in combat, the author’s active career in the military ended in 2009 as a result of injuries she suffered during the crash. A memoir from an Air National Guard pilot who was shot down on a search-and-rescue mission during her third tour of duty in Afghanistan.ĭuring her service, Hegar not only faced enemy fire, but also the hostility of some of her fellow officers, some of whom had difficulty accepting women in the military.
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