Marines assigned to a female engagement team conduct a security patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, January 2011. (Cpl. Marionne T. Mangrum/Marine Corps) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on ...

In an era where traditional norms are under scrutiny, and the landscape of American defense policy is evolving, the integration of women into combat roles within the U.S. military presents both an ...

Many veterans, service members and officials in the Defense Department worry that decades of progress could be unraveled in a matter of months if Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, was grilled about allegations of sexual assault and financial mismanagement against him, the role of women in combat, and ...

If confirmed by the Senate, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon could mean upheaval for the careers of thousands of women serving in the military. Pete Hegseth, a now-former Fox ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for voicing his belief that women should not serve in military combat roles.

Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, the former Army National Guard major and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has no clear policy or management experience that qualifies him to run the ...

I spend a lot of time watching people die. Not in an abstract or academic sense. I mean in drone footage—kill videos, four‑K streams of a human being’s last moments. I watch them because it keeps my ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

Women veterans are denouncing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech to senior military leaders, specifically his agenda for military fitness.