ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Trojan Horse as a metaphor for understanding the instrumental use of women as a political front against Islam in the neo-imperial geopolitics of the United States in the Middle East. It examines the role played by global feminism in the appropriation of the ideology of women's emancipation for military goals and explores the consequences of the geopolitical uses of women and Islam. The French military strategy of deconstructing Islam through the combined forces of humiliation and psychological rehabilitation-indoctrination did not rely on any feminist ideology of liberation. The relationship between academic feminists and international organizations was born out of the mutually recognized need of one group seeking exposure, and the other the expertise of academe. Women during the Algerian war figured in a military strategy of total population control. This strategy was based on military doctrine informed by guerre revolutionnaire theory formulated by a group of officers, veterans of the Indochina War as well as WWII.
