After ten tours with SOF, I saw women prove on the battlefield what history already shows: when we hold everyone to the same mission-driven standards, merit wins and the force gets stronger.

The debate over women in combat roles, resolved nearly a decade ago through real-world success, has resurfaced. Revisiting it distracts from critical military priorities like recruitment, ...

Women weren’t allowed to officially serve in direct ground combat jobs when Emelie Vanasse started her ROTC program at George Washington University. Instead, she studied biology — but it still ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles has reignited fears about his approach to women in the ...

For more than 40 years, pollsters have been asking people about allowing women in combat roles. In 1982, when NORC asked ...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will lift the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat, according to several news reports — even though women actually have been serving in war zones for years. "The ...

Following Hegseth's speech on military fitness standards, some expressed concern there’s a false narrative only female ...