Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and the panelists on The Nightly Show are Chrissy Teigen, Philip Galanes, and Mike Yard.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, contributor to the Atlantic's Defense One, and author. She is on tonight to discus her latest book
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan—including Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country’s cause.
In 2010, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battlefield alongside Green Berets and Army Rangers on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach, and could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Though officially banned from combat, female soldiers could be “attached” to different teams, and for the first time, women throughout the Army heard the call to try out for this special ops program.
In Ashley’s War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses exhaustive firsthand reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women hand-picked from across the Army, and the remarkable hero at its heart: 1st Lt. Ashley White, who would become the first Cultural Support Team member killed in action and the first CST remembered on the Army Special Operations Memorial Wall of Honor alongside the Army Rangers with whom she served.
Transporting readers into this little-known world of fierce women bound together by valor, danger, and the desire to serve, Ashley’s War is a riveting combat narrative and a testament to the unbreakable bonds born of war.
This sounds like a very good book and should be an excellent interview.
Chrissy Teigen
is an American model. She made her debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2010 and, alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge, appeared on the cover in 2014. She currently co-hosts Lip Sync Battle with LL Cool J on Spike TV.
Philip Galanes
is an American writer and attorney.
He published two novels: Father’s Day, published in 2004 (Alfred A. Knopf) and Emma’s Table, published in 2008 (HarperCollins). He is included in Contemporary authors Volume 231, 2005 and Contemporary authors new revision series Volume 196, 2010.
Galanes currently writes the modern-day advice column, “Social Q’s”, which appears weekly in the New York Times Sunday Styles section. The column came about when a Times editor read one of his novels and proposed he try the new medium.
Mike Yard
Originally from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mike Yard is a New York City based stand-up comedian who regularly headlines at clubs across the country. Yard was also the stand-up winner of Comedy Central's "Get Up Stand Up" online competition and performed with Greg Giraldo in Jamaica. His television appearances include Comedy Central's "Inside Amy Schumer" and "Live at Gotham," HBO's "Def Comedy Jam" produced by Russell Simmons, "The Apollo Comedy Hour" and BET's "Comic View."
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