| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Movie Review

Lioness. Dir. and prod. by Meg McLagan and Daria Somners. Room 11 Productions. Chicken & Egg Pictures, Impact Partners, 2008. 82 mins. (www.lionessthefilm.com)
Lioness is named for the term army commanders in Iraq coined for women soldiers who risk their lives going into ground combat with their fellow male soldiers. You can be forgiven if you were unaware of the fact that woman are fighting in combat in Iraq, since it rates as one of the best-kept secrets about the U.S. invasion and occupation of that country. It is certainly one of the least- and worst-reported dimensions of the Iraq War.	1
Meg McLagan and Daria Somners's compelling documentary sets out to correct the record with interviews and film of five women of the U.S. Army's First Engineer Battalion, nominally a support contingent, after they return from deployment. Since the atypical war zones of Iraq never accorded with military planning, women have been badly needed in the combat arena to search Iraqi women (a cultural taboo for men) suspected of aiding insurgents. Commanders also found that women are more effective in calming Iraqi mothers and children during middle-of-the-night raids. However, in the war's environment of urban chaos, it is no surprise that women also found themselves in the middle of fierce firefights, which these five veterans of multiple battles for Ramadi recount vividly.	. . .

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