Vastly experienced former defense secretary who allowed women into combat is braced for backlash but feels \u2018deep, deep down in my guts\u2019 that norms will hold<\/p>\n
In January 2013, as US defense secretary, Leon Panetta lifted<\/a> a ban on women serving in combat. Some time after January 2025, if Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s nominee for the role, is confirmed and stays true to his expressed position, that ban may be reimposed.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m particularly concerned about that, having been the secretary that opened up that opportunity for women to be in combat,\u201d Panetta told the Guardian. \u201cAnd I\u2019m very proud of it, because I think they performed well. They\u2019re great warriors. I\u2019ve seen them in action in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere. And we now have over 200,000 women who are part of the military \u2026 In a democracy like the United States, it makes sense for everyone who\u2019s willing to serve to have that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vastly experienced former defense secretary who allowed women into combat is braced for backlash but feels \u2018deep, deep down in my guts\u2019 that norms will hold In January 2013, as US defense secretary, Leon Panetta lifted a ban on women serving in combat. Some time after January 2025, if Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}