{"id":253040,"date":"2026-04-13T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=253040"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:18:47","slug":"australia-army-to-be-led-by-woman-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/253040\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia army to be led by woman for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Australia on Monday said a woman would lead its army for the first time in history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australia-appoints-woman-lead-its-army-first-time-2026-04-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the current chief &zwnj;of joint capabilities, will become chief of army in July, the government said in a statement. She will replace Lieutenant General Simon Stuart.<\/p>\n<p>Coyle&rsquo;s appointment comes as Australia&rsquo;s military seeks to &#8203;boost the number of female officers in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From &#8288;July, we will have the first ever female chief of army &#8203;in the Australian Army&rsquo;s 125-year history,&rdquo; Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a &#8203;statement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia on Monday said a woman would lead its army for the first time in history, Reuters writes. Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the current chief &zwnj;of joint capabilities, will become chief of army in July, the government said in a statement. She will replace Lieutenant General Simon Stuart. Coyle&rsquo;s appointment comes as Australia&rsquo;s military seeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-army"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253041,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253040\/revisions\/253041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}