Germany has unveiled plans to introduce voluntary military service. From January 2026, all 18-year-old men will be required ...

The decision is controversial as the High Court of Justice has pressed the military to open more, not fewer, tracks for women in combat. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir announced on Thursday ...

1 of 12 — Young women learn how to charge an enemy with rifles and bayonets at their high school in Tokyo, Feb. 18, 1937. Japan trained women and girls for auxiliary army units. 2 of 12 — Jewish women ...

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 ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for women in combat roles, a move he said will make the military more lethal, but that women servicemembers and ...

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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles has reignited fears about his approach to women in the ...

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows this week when he said in a speech to military generals that fitness standards for combat must “return to the highest male standard.” “Those ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address Tuesday to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his confirmation early this year and helped elevate his voice as a Fox ...