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The images of women throughout the photo spread range from women (partly) in uniform to women partially unclothed, to women asserting themselves (arm wrestling, tattoing) to women in extremely passive positions (I'm thinking specifically of the the photo where a woman is held down in the mud and one where the woman lies on the bunk bed next to a partially clothed soldier). To add to Brett's thinking about love vs. war, and the concept of love made possible by war, these images seem to argue that war makes possible a certain kind of love - one that some of these pictures depict to be potentially violent and/or unwanted (the woman on the bed looks really unhappy, and the muddy woman's situation is ambiguous). But thinking about the context of these photos, doesn't Vogue ultimately want us to find these images titallating and sexy? Or, is their argument that the men and women depicted are "making love" (and partying!) rather than fighting?