If we can separate the policy from the person, and our emotions from the argument, we should be able to agree that this ...

Before his nomination for defense secretary, Hegseth said on a podcast interview that women "straight up" do not belong in military combat roles. He reversed his position weeks later as he faced ...

The switch comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late ... has not lowered standards for women to gain entry into combat positions.

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ... "Women have served in combat arms units, in both command and enlisted positions, and continue to do so and excel," he said. As a former Army officer ...

Many veterans, service members and officials in the Defense Department ... 1948 that barred women from positions where they potentially could be exposed to combat, and lawmakers did so over ...

Women account for roughly 17.5% of the Defense Department’s active ... over human history — men in those positions are more capable.” Even if a combat exclusion policy is reinstated ...

Imagine a combat credible force capable of fighting ... Third, the time for preparing defensive positions is limited. Although 2/101 MBCT did not deliberately plan a mobile defense, over the ...

v. Panetta, in which we represent four servicewomen and the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) in a challenge to the Defense Department’s longstanding policy barring women from thousands of ground ...

said Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is “unqualified for the position,” and ripped into his past comments that women should not serve in combat. Duckworth ...

Morton/AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday ... “All entry-level and sustained physical fitness requirements within combat arms positions must be sex-neutral, based solely on the ...