Some women say they suspect the review has been launched merely to buttress a predetermined conclusion: that they do not belong in the infantry.

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

The move isn’t surprising considering that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, when he was a Fox News host, said, “We should not have women in combat roles.” ...

As it turns out, women are highly effective in combat. Khris Fuhr, a West Point graduate who worked on gender integration at ...

Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Julius Hackney. Women who have served in combat arms for the last decade say a new Pentagon-ordered review of their “effectiveness” is the latest frustrating chapter ...

The bigger picture, as raised by the second question and ignored during the Hegseth hearings, concerns the realities of military recruitment. No one in his—or her—right mind is going to voluntarily ...

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows this week when he said in a speech to military generals that fitness standards for combat must “return to the highest male standard.” “Those ...

Women have repeatedly met the same combat standards as men in schools and selections, so the real debate is no longer about capability but about whether some men are willing to accept women in combat ...

The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military "effectiveness" of having several thousand female soldiers and Marines in infantry, ...

SAN DIEGO - Marine 1st Lt. Brandy Soublet is about as far from the war front as possible at her desk in the California desert, but she's on the front lines of an experiment that could one day put ...

SAN DIEGO - About 17 percent of male Marine respondents who planned to stay in the service or were undecided said they would likely leave if women move into combat positions, a Marine Corps survey has ...