Today a female soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.

This staggering statistic comes to us from a new and important documentary film The Invisible War. Winner of the Audience Award 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival, The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.

This isn't that surprising when you look at the rape statistics by country. In the UK(England and Wales) there were 24.1 reported rapes per 100,000, in the UK (Northern Ireland) there were 22.3 reported rapes per 100,000, in the US there were 28.6 reported rapes per 100,000, in New Zealand there were 30.9 per 100,000, and many more in other countries. If rape is that high in countries where there is no war or fighting it stands to reason that it will be high in war too.

Jun 12, 2012 -- 10:54AM, Kwinters wrote:

Today a female soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.

This staggering statistic comes to us from a new and important documentary film The Invisible War. Winner of the Audience Award 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival, The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.

Just think about it:  a person self-selects to join an organization which specializes in perpetrating violence upon mostly innocent people (the rate in modern warfare is about 10 civilians slaughtered for every combatant killed).  This 1% of the population which is so violence prone is let loose to creeate havoc and terror in many nations around the world, mostly so that huge international corporations can plunder the resources of these nations, whether it is bananas or rare earth minerals or oil.  Any female joining such a "gang" must also be "violence-prone".  Not to say that she is asking to be raped, or to rape others; just wondering why she is surprised when it happens in this environment of screwing over powerless innocent people.

Jun 12, 2012 -- 6:41PM, johndavid23 wrote:

Jun 12, 2012 -- 10:54AM, Kwinters wrote:

Today a female soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.

This staggering statistic comes to us from a new and important documentary film The Invisible War. Winner of the Audience Award 2012 at the Sundance Film Festival, The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.

Just think about it:  a person self-selects to join an organization which specializes in perpetrating violence upon mostly innocent people (the rate in modern warfare is about 10 civilians slaughtered for every combatant killed).  This 1% of the population which is so violence prone is let loose to creeate havoc and terror in many nations around the world, mostly so that huge international corporations can plunder the resources of these nations, whether it is bananas or rare earth minerals or oil.  Any female joining such a "gang" must also be "violence-prone".  Not to say that she is asking to be raped, or to rape others; just wondering why she is surprised when it happens in this environment of screwing over powerless innocent people.

Because we should have greater expectations for those whose job it is to protect each other and to protect us.

I am surprised there isn't more outrage here.  After all, if homosexual men were attacking their fellow soldiers would that warrent more discussion then men raping our heros?

What a bunch of nonsense posts!  Of course a female soldier is “RAPED” more often by peers than by enemy. She is around the peers more and when around the enemy they are more likely to see an enemy soldier and be trying to kill the enemy soldiers. All rapes are more likely to be perpetrated by someone who knows the victim.   Just as an aside, more soldiers and veterans have died in accidents in the last decade than as a result of enemy.