In August of 2023, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) updated its 2021 study, "Breaking Barriers: Women in Army Special Operations."1 According to an Army News Service article, the study "outlined 42 recommendations. to better address obstacles facing female Soldiers serving in special operations units and to retain its top talent," and its "findings will guide USASOC in optimizing female warfighters while noting their physical and anatomical differences." The study's focus group responses highlighted "equipment fitting, childcare, gender bias, social support, sexual harassment, pregnancy and postpartum, and morale and wellbeing." According to the USASOC commander, Lieutenant General Jonathan Braga, "Although disappointed by some of the findings and comments in the study, we are committed to addressing these issues with candor and transparency."
In August of 2023, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) updated its 2021 study, "Breaking Barriers: Women in Army Special Operations."1 According to an Army News Service article, the study "outlined 42 recommendations. to better address obstacles facing female Soldiers serving in special operations units and to retain its top talent," and its "findings will guide USASOC in optimizing female warfighters while noting their physical and anatomical differences." The study's focus group responses highlighted "equipment fitting, childcare, gender bias, social support, sexual harassment, pregnancy and postpartum, and morale and wellbeing." According to the USASOC commander, Lieutenant General Jonathan Braga, "Although disappointed by some of the findings and comments in the study, we are committed to addressing these issues with candor and transparency."
united states has taken steps to heighten the readiness of its forces at home and abroad. so they are prepared to respond to a range of contingencies, including support to the nato response force if it is activated. reporter: the president talking with european leaders on a secure video call late this afternoon. i had a very, very good meeting. reporter: that meeting followed one with his national security team at camp david over the weekend. biden could have deployed those troops to nato immediately, but stopped short of that. i want to reinforce that as of now, the decision has been made to put these units on higher alert and higher alert only. no decisions have been made to deploy any forces from the united states at this time. reporter: the u.s. troops which would be part of that nato force would include ground combat units, reconnaissance, and aviation forces. we joined u.s. fighter pilots on a nato exercise when russia was building up forces in the baltics after it anne
amount of aid across the board. i think zelenskyy s inspirational leadership and the incredible courage and tenacity of their ground combat units has taken these tools of war, smart munitions, and done absolutely unbelievable things with it. and brought to a standstill a quarter of 1 million men, russian armed forces. now, going forward, coalition forces are still banned. the ukrainians complicated systems are tough to move. defenses stems it will be a real challenge to get that to the fighters in ukraine. i think you are going to see a continued, substantial support. and ukrainians are actually so well organized that they are getting their fighting units. it s a grim scene. but kyiv has not yet been hit with massive amounts of russian
russians that have been put in, and they had all the infrastructure they needed. and yet we re talking about a stalemate now. what does that mean? and what does it say about this? well, first of all, it says 44 million people, these are not just the ukrainian military but also territorial defense units, armed civilians. they re fighting in urban areas. they ve done extremely well, aggressive tactics. the kinds of support, military support by nato countries have been effective, smart munitions, both air defense and ground attack of russian armor. they ve caused enormous casualties apparently to russian ground combat units who are incompetently led to our astonishment. now the russians have pulled back and they re using standoff fires. they re an artillery army,