Ben Barry: Women in combat (IISS)

Last week the British Army announced that it would remove all remaining restrictions on the participation of women in ground combat. This follows the 2013 announcement of then-US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that US forces would in principle lift all restrictions on the employment of women in ground combat units. The US Army, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) would have to make a special case for continuing to deny any combat roles to women. I assessed the potential implications of this move in the April May 2013 issue of Survival.

https://www.iiss.org/en/politics%20and%20strategy/blogsections/2016-d1f9/july-001c/women-in-combat-3e4a