Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy's backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the enemy. Lanning and Stubbe blend analysis and you-are-there stories of Force Recon in action to create the definitive account of Recon Marines.

Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.S. Army bus in Texas and found himself court-martialed. The defiant soldier was Jack Roosevelt Robinson, already in 1944 a celebrated athlete in track and football and in a few years the man who would break Major League Baseball's color barrier. This was the pivotal moment in Jackie Robinson's pre-MLB career. Had he been found guilty, he would not have been the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Had the incident never happened, he would've gone overseas with the Black Panther tank battalion - and who knows what after that. Having survived this crucible of unjust prosecution as an American soldier, Robinson - already a talented multisport athlete - became the ideal player to integrate baseball.

In den letzten Jahren ist es still geworden um Frauenpolitik in sterreich. Dazu haben unter anderem die Abschaffung des Frauenministeriums im Jahr 2000, die Errichtung einer Mnnerabteilung und das Null-Defizit unter der VP-FP Regierung beigetragen. Frauenpolitik wurde zu Familienpolitik. Durch Manahmen wie das Kinderbetreuungsgeld wurden Frauen quasi auf gesetzlicher Ebene in das Private zurckgedrngt. Aufgrund fehlender gleichstellungspolitischer Manahmen schnitt sterreich im internationalen Vergleich immer schlechter ab, mit fallender Tendenz. 2009 platzierte sich sterreich im Gleichstellungsbericht des Weltwirtschaftsforums hinter afrikanischen Staaten wie Namibia oder Uganda. Daran konnte auch das 2007 wieder geschaffene Frauenministerium nicht viel ndern.