Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Author

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Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; author of “Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield.”

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on KCRW

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