The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and ...

Pentagon officials ordered a review of the “effectiveness” of women serving in combat after a ratcheting up of rhetoric around “sex neutral" fitness standards.

Women in combat arms jobs say a new Pentagon review will only duplicate studies of the last decade that confirmed women meet ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A military advisory commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with a policy that bans women from serving in combat units, breathing new life into a long-simmering debate.

Thus it is not just infantrymen, trained to kill in close combat, who are dying in Iraq, although they are taking the heaviest losses. Soldiers whose roles are categorized as "support," where most of ...

Women were formally integrated into ground combat units in 2015, but now, more than a decade later, the Pentagon has recently ...

In Mosul, Iraq, shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Army Lt. Col. Steve Countouriotis of Petaluma and his civil affairs crew were surrounded by several Kurds who appeared interested in ...

Until last Thursday, the Pentagon barred women from roughly a quarter-million jobs involving combat. Coincidentally – but, interestingly — that’s about the same number of women who have gone to war in ...

Ten years ago, women had to be fully integrated into all combat roles. In truth, their battlefield contributions date back ...