Today, 160 women have earned their Ranger tabs, and the debate over whether women should serve in combat positions alongside men is generally considered settled. Or it had been, until very recently.

Last week, the U.S. Army announced new fitness standards in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders to make the standards for women and men in combat roles the same. Like much of ...

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 ...

In January 2013, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta authorized lifting a 1994 ban on women serving in direct ground combat roles. Beginning in January 2016, all military jobs opened to women ...