According to a Reuters report on the 15th, a study by Brown University in the United States showed that during the war in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, an average of nearly a quarter of women and 1.9% of men in the US military had been sexually assaulted. The actual number of sexual assault cases in the US military in 2021 may be as high as 75,569, and 73,695 in 2023, both more than twice the US government's estimates. The Pentagon said in a statement that although they could not comment on research methods not conducted by the Department of Defense, they would continue to work to prevent sexual assaults and provide assistance to victims.

According to reports, in 2020, 20-year-old Army female soldier Vanessa Guillen was murdered and dismembered after reporting sexual harassment. After that, the U.S. Congress passed a reform bill aimed at strengthening the handling of sexual assault cases within the military. The study pointed out that although the U.S. military claims to have been committed to solving this problem, it has achieved little results. Greenberg, the author of the report, said that "9/11" made the U.S. military put military readiness first, and violence and gender inequality within military institutions were therefore covered up a lot, and the problem of sexual assault crimes has intensified.