Pete Hegseth, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as Defense secretary, recently said he opposes women serving in combat roles in the U.S. military. “I’m straight up just saying ...

The first woman to command Canada's military called out a U.S. senator on Saturday for questioning the role of women in combat. Gen. Jennie Carignan responded to comments made by Idaho Republican Sen.

What he has instead is a reactionary streak—one that’s evident in his view that women should no longer have combat roles in the military. In his recent book The War on Warriors, he implies ...

Former Fox News commentator and Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth said on a recent podcast that “I’m straight up saying we should not have women in combat roles,” raising fears among ...

A few years later in 2015, former Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened all military combat positions to female service members. Such progress has allowed women to fill about 220,000 jobs previously ...

(Cpl. Marionne T. Mangrum/Marine Corps) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday defended women in the military and their eligibility for combat roles, calling them “very courageous and very ...

When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. Smithers was a “female searcher” with the National Guard and was attached to an ...

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.

That's because Hegseth believes "we should not have women in combat roles." But if Hegseth's beliefs stem from concerns about women's combat-effectiveness, he is misguided. Women who serve are not ...

Since the onset of the war, the combat intelligence team, consisting of female soldiers, had been stationed near the Syrian border and in the Mount Dov region. Female combat soldiers from combat ...

that he is critical of military service by women and more specifically opposes female troops serving in combat roles. "It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made ...