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Critical Military Studies (CMS) is a burgeoning interdisciplinary sub-field which 'turns a critical lens onto military practices and institutions through which nothing about the military is taken for granted' (criticalmilitarystudies.org). This contrasts with the wider field of military sociology and military studies which instrumentalises critique as a means through which to generate recommendations for the improvement of military policy. However, CMS is also a productive and proactive field of inquiry in its own right (Basham, Belkin and Gifkins 2015). At the centre of CMS is a commitment to questioning military power, processes, and institutions, in their multiple forms 'as the outcome of social life and political contestation ... at a range of scales from the embodied to the global, rather than as given, functional categories beyond interrogation' (Rech et al., 2015: 48). In this chapter we introduce CMS with a focus on what CMS does (or can do) when considering gender, rather than trying to define what it is, and we pay particular attention to its value for feminist enquiry. We understand the intersections between CMS scholarship and feminist analyses to