Soldiers

While the region touts some of the most pro-feminism positions in the world, there are still many regressive aspects to its society.

• By Haidar Khezri

Dysfunction in a U.S. Army recruitment pipeline for foreign-born soldiers has created chaos and uncertainty for thousands.

• By Sabrina Toppa

A dispatch from Goseong, South Korea.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Starting in 2016, women will be able to serve in any combat role in the United States' armed forces.

• By Kate Wheeling

The animal science behind your favorite heartwarming YouTube phenomenon.

• By Bettina Chang

The military will exhume a grave in the Philippines that may hold the remains of Bud Kelder, an American POW whose family has long been fighting the Pentagon to get him home.

• By Megan McCloskey

Without change of leadership throughout, meaningful improvement could be elusive.

• By Megan McCloskey

For more than 50 years, Army PFC Lawrence S. Gordon was mistakenly interred as a German soldier in a cemetery in France. Then European officials did what the U.S. military would not: exhumed and identified him with DNA.

• By Megan McCloskey

Changes must go beyond bureaucracy to update the scientific approach and embrace outside help.

• By Megan McCloskey

John Eakin shares what he learned about tracking down the remains of his cousin who died in a World War II POW camp.

• By Megan McCloskey

Can mindfulness help heal our wounded soldiers?

• By Kevin Charles Fleming