Anna Granville

When Task & Purposeoffered me a contributor role in mid 2014, I heeded the encouragement of close confidants to pursue...

Statistically, the Navy does not have an officer retention problem. Yet everyone knows in reality, many of the best people...

In preparation for leaving active duty, I recently completed all of my pre-separation training — transition goals, plans, and success,...

Now that the Department of Defense has officially opened all combat jobs to women, the requirement for women to register...

American women have served on the front lines of the battlefield since the United States declared itself an independent nation....

“I really do wonder all the things we don’t hear about the military, if these are the terrible stories we...

There is one glaring issue with the Navy’s significant shift toward gender-neutral uniforms: they aren’t particularly gender neutral. The uniforms...

They were a sisterhood of female combat soldiers, the “alphas of the alphas,” who initially served in direct combat with...

I have resigned my active-duty commission, which means I have exactly a year left on active duty in the Navy....

The opportunity to lead others — whether a small fire team or an aircraft carrier — is one of the...

A few weeks ago, I learned that I would not be deploying again. The reason was simple: I was the...

I have only been given truly terrible advice once in my military career, at its inception, “When you go to...

It's the quiet moments on deployment when the sadness, and the loneliness you feel, comes rushing in, filling the silence....

Editor’s Note: Portions of this essay originally appeared in “The Women’s War: Separate Spheres and Women Soldiers in the American...

The most common reaction I have encountered when I mention my plan to resign my active-duty commission is a shrug...

I was lying in my bed passing a lazy Saturday morning, listening to the sounds of traffic and laughing families...

Ten to seven and we are already high above the clouds, only mountaintops peaking through the cracked white, like an...

“A liberal education … frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even...

“Are you sitting down?” asked the voice on the other end of the line. It was twilight on a week...

I recently received an email from a fellow service member asking for intellectual ammunition to help win an argument. Jeff...

In May, a robust unofficial survey circulated among active-duty Navy personnel regarding retention in the Navy. The survey was the...

We cheered and applauded as the military cargo aircraft touched down in California. As I stepped onto the tarmac, now...

The lights of Doha spark awake as the dhow floats gently in the harbor. It is a majestic metropolis with...