Groups seek clarity on motive behind Pentagon’s study of women in combat

A group of civil rights organizations sued the Defense Department for records behind its decision to study women’s “effectiveness” in combat roles a decade after the military opened those positions to women. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, alongside two other groups, asks a federal court to enforce their request for information about why the Pentagon commissioned the study. In a statement , Gillian Thomas, senior counsel for the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, argued that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has “repeatedly, without evidence, questioned…