But a presidential commission on women in the military recommended keeping women out of ground combat; and a poll for the commission found that only 45 percent of the public would support a policy allowing women to volunteer for combat. The current...

This is the “hollow force” Rep. Hunter fears. The strategy dates from the post-Cold War “bottom-up review” when Defense Secretary Les Aspin elected to preserve existing force structures instead of conducting the robust rethink we needed. The cost has...

By Michael O'Hanlon For six decades the United States has planned for the capacity to conduct two nearly simultaneous major ground-combat operations. During the Cold War, one of those campaigns was assumed to be an all-out struggle against the Warsaw Pac

During the Cold War, one of those campaigns was assumed to be an all-out struggle against the Warsaw Pact in Europe, the other a conflict in Asia. Since the Cold War, defense secretaries Dick Cheney, Les Aspin, William Perry, William Cohen, Donald...

Almost exactly six months later, on July 19, I went to the National Defense University at Fort McNair to announce it to the officers in attendance. Dont ask, dont tell basically said that if you say youre gay, its presumed that you intend to violate...