Katherine Schifani

Cartography (eBook, ePUB)

Navigating a Year in Iraq

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cartography describes Katherine Schifani's time deployed in Iraq as a counterterrorism advisor with U.S. Special Forces in 2011. It is the story of one woman mapping the terra incognita of Iraq with questionable interpreters, nonexistent guidance, and an unclear purpose. It's the story of a gay woman serving under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy who realizes that the policy repeal she has long awaited is so overshadowed by a hostile environment that remaining closeted is more critical than ever. At the heart of Cartography is Schifani's quest to understand the Iraqi landscape and the Special Forces culture of American men she worked alongside as a gay woman and a member of the air force. Her memoir examines both the perils of being undertrained and underequipped to perform the job assigned to her in her role as an advisor and some of the unique situations-good and bad-her gender created in such an irregular combat environment. Schifani's deployment was an exercise in exploration, observation, and navigating a wholly foreign land.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640125384
• Artikelnr.: 72457677

Autorenporträt

Katherine Schifani is a fourteen-year air force veteran and currently serves on the Air Force Reserve Command. She was deployed in 2011 with the army to Iraq, where, at twenty-five years old, she became the officer in charge and the head logistics advisor for the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service and Iraqi Special Operations Forces.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Power Steering
2. Fly Fishing
3. God Willing
4. The Breath of Allah
5. Breechblock
6. Repetitive and Unnecessary
7. Elhamdullah
8. Cartography
9. The Omars
10. History Lessons
11. The Kill List
12. Pistol Whip
13. Design Flaws
Source Acknowledgments