On the state of the U.S. military An Army veteran who rose to the rank of major and served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hegseth, 44, says he believes that standards have declined and that ...

The Pentagon on Thursday lifted a long-time ban on women serving in front-line combat positions, taking a historic step toward gender equality in the U.S. military after 11 years of war in which ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of combat physical standards. Women who've served in combat jobs say ten years of experience has proven they're up to the task.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already.

This We’ll Defend: Soldier fought to give women in Afghanistan ‘unprecedented’ voice HNN’s series of special reports to commemorate the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday continues with a ...

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew after more than two decades of a ...

Prior to taking on the Pentagon job, Hegseth, an Army veteran who rose to the rank of major and served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, said in a podcast interview that women "straight up" do ...

Weaving a history of the war through troops' experiences, the characters in The Fighters climb into an F-14 cockpit for the opening strikes after the attacks of 9/11, hunt for Osama bin Laden along ...