Your trusted source for contextualizing the news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Shortly after she graduated from Princeton University, Mikayla Blaska was selected by a unit commander to attend ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) considers physical fitness an important component of the ''general health and well-being" and readiness of military troops (DoDD 1308.1, 1981) and defines physical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sophia A. Nelson covers Law, Politics, American Lifestyle & Culture. For more than seven decades—beginning with the landmark 1948 ...

The defense secretary raised the issue suggesting women were getting into combat not because they met high standards, but because they were given a pass. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington Bobbie ...

Female Marines fire rifles during an all-female marksmanship event in 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Angela Wilcox) Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an ...

Veterans reflect on their military service, the requirements of ground combat occupations, and the decade-long integration of women into those roles. When former Army captain Rita Graham was in high ...