Reply #46: For the same reason Anonymous was a woman.

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Many men (and no not all) don't want to hear that women can be warriors because that undercuts a principal rational for war: They're 'protecting' us. Until very recently men wrote the military histories. John Keegan, one of the leading military historians, still denies that the Nightwitches served in any meaningful way on the Eastern Front.

Have you ever heard of Deborah Samson, Lucy Brewer or Loreta Velasques? These women, along with others, masqueraded as men fought, not served, fought in combat. Samson, Revolutionary War, wounded three times. Brewer as a Marine on board the USS Constitution, War of 1812, Velasques, Confederate Army, organized a troop and led them in battle, most notably 1st Battle of Bull Run.

And wait, there's more. The invisible soldier effect applies to minorities across the board. Anyone care to guess the percentage of African-Americans in the Revolutionary army?

25%

Anyone know about the Wind Talkers before the movie came out?

The 54th Mass until Glory?

The Japanese-American units on the Italian front, WWII, some of the most decorated units in the army's history.

So yeah, we never heard about the Nightwitches because they were Red Army; worse, they were women and they kicked serious ass.