Camille Boutron, a doctor in sociology, is a recognised expert on the roles held by women in armed organisations and on their participation in conflicts. As these subjects lie at the heart of Wombat and that Camille says some of the things said by the women whose portraits appear on this website have guided her research at the Paris-based IRSEM (War College Institute of Strategic Research), I thought it would be very interesting to interview her. “I’m not used to being on the other side of the mirror,” she laughs. But she cheerfully answered my questions even if the day of our Skype conversation she was slowly recuperating from Covid…