Women were formally integrated into ground combat units in 2015, but now, more than a decade later, the Pentagon has recently ...

In mid-December of 2025, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a review of the “effectiveness” of women in ground combat. The Review is to be performed by the Institute of Defense Analyses, a ...

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

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 ...

In part I of this two-part series, retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Arlene Banks talks about her experiences beginning her career in the Women’s Army Corps, and the difficulties she faced as she joined ...

On Jan. 2, 1975 I joined the Women's Army Corps, later integrated with the regular U.S. Army. During my training, we were instructed on the My Lai massacre, which occurred during the Vietnam War. To ...