Summary: <p>Before the Vietnam War there was a law that banned women from reporting on the frontlines of any war for the U.S. When President Johnson refused to officially declare a state of war in Vietnam, an opening appeared: no war, no ban. A handful of pioneering women bought one-way tickets into the battlefield. They had no editors, no health insurance and little or no formal training. This week, Brooke spoke about this time to reporter Elizabeth Becker, formerly a Washington Post war correspondent in Cambodia, NPR's foreign editor and then national security correspondent for the New York Times. Becker is the author of a new book: <a href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/elizabeth-becker/you-dont-belong-here/9781541768215/"><em>You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War</em></a>.</p>
