DW spoke with current and former female service members in India's military about challenges they face in rising through the ranks and about the role women can play in the armed forces.

The U.S. defense secretary faced questions about his views on female soldiers at his confirmation hearing in mid-January 2025.

Combat medics with the Oregon ... and other critical battlefield medical procedures,” Lee said. The evolving curriculum reflects the military’s shift toward preparing for near-peer conflicts ...

From late 2024 onward, a claim circulated online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said women should not serve in military combat roles. Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him ...

Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André ...

WARRENTON, Ore. — Combat medics with the Oregon National Guard are adapting their battlefield medicine skills for large-scale combat operations through innovative training that includes ...

If Hegseth is confirmed and restricts women from combat roles, "our military can no longer do its job," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said Thursday, after she declared in a floor speech that he is ...

As a warrant officer class II in the Ghana Armed Forces with 15 years of combat medical experience and a Ghana Jungle Badge, he believed he was ready for any challenge — until he faced the Army ...

Instead of strengthening a weakened military—his primary duty as commander-in-chief—Obama evidently believed that it was more important to open all combat jobs to women. Assigning women to ...

While still a majority, the portion of Americans who support transgender military service members has declined. Advocates worry that's by design.

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...