“I am very proud of all the women I’ve heard today. I thought they spoke very well,” 92-year-old World War II veteran Navy Lt. Ruthanna Maxwell Weber said at the Women in Military Service for America ...

Service in wartime has long been a reliable path for Americans denied full citizenship to secure their rights. Black troops’ contributions to the Union cause during the Civil War helped convince ...

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

Pete Hegseth came to office with benighted views of women in combat. Within a year, he ordered a study on whether having women in combat roles has led to compromised standards. They are remembered as ...

For decades, many Black women in the United States military felt forced to choose between service and self expression. Strict grooming regulations once prohibited locs and other natural hairstyles, ...

Military service is one of the nation’s most rewarding yet consequential careers, offering purpose and honor while exposing those who serve to profound and lasting health risks. For women, these ...

Recently, I stood in an airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, and looked up. I was wondering what it would have been like to take off from there in a small plane, flying into the dust of West Texas and the ...

KYIV and KHARKIV, Ukraine — Maryna Mytsiuk spends her free time at a shooting range outside Kyiv, hyper-focused on hitting her targets. She's got to practice. She's waiting for a call that, any day, ...