These roles allowed women to bypass the combat taboo. Yet they were still regarded as temporary, effectively excluding them ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday defended women serving in the military and, specifically in combat roles, amid growing scrutiny of comments by his would-be successor, Pete Hegseth. "I see ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has reignited a debate that many thought had been long settled: Should women be allowed to serve their country by fighting ...

Women in combat broke the "iron" ceiling more than a decade ago when female soldiers volunteered to throw themselves into some of the toughest operations carried out during the War on Terror, ...

More than 30 years after Canada's military allowed women to serve in combat roles, it's now specifically designing uniforms ...

Democrats geared up Tuesday to grill Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on his past behavior and opposition to women serving in combat roles during his potentially explosive confirmation hearing — ...

Women serving in the Indian Armed Forces suffer systemic discrimination across all stages of their military careers, a new ...

Victor Joecks is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It’s amazing how controversial common sense is these days. Look at the reaction to Pete Hegseth’s comments about women in combat roles.

It’s amazing how controversial common sense is these days. Look at the reaction to Pete Hegseth’s comments about women in combat roles. Donald Trump tapped Hegseth as secretary of defense. He served ...

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France — The debate on whether women should be allowed in front-line combat has, if anything, one enlightening quality: it says a lot about the so-called civilian-military divide. A ...

1 of 12 — Young women learn how to charge an enemy with rifles and bayonets at their high school in Tokyo, Feb. 18, 1937. Japan trained women and girls for auxiliary army units. 2 of 12 — Jewish women ...