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What The US Army Should Learn From the British Army’s Punchy Recruiting Campaign
Commentary
The U.S. Army will always face challenges recruiting the soldiers it needs, but an uphill battle is no excuse not to strive to do better —or learn from other countries' modern...
By Emma Moore
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The Challenges of Military Child Public Education and Homeschooling
Commentary
Access to quality education and persistent transition problems for military children are continuing sources of frustration for military families and affects retention across a...
By Lt Col Brad Orgeron
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Health, Healing, and Hope: A Review of Suzanne Gordon’s ‘Wounds of War’
I’ve long been bewildered by the extensive negative news coverage of the Department of Veterans Affairs, where I formerly worked and continue to get all my medical care. My co...
By Kayla M. Williams
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To Retain Today’s Talent, the DoD Must Support Dual-Professional Couples
Commentary
Talent management in the Department of Defense has received a great deal of critical attention over the last few years, but much of this thinking has centered on how the milit...
By Tom Barron
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There Really Is No Place For Hazing In A Professional Military
Commentary
The vigorous Twitter response to the recent piece “There’s A Reason For All That Hazing And Ass-Chewing, And We Shouldn’t Ignore It” highlighted a need to disentangle a few ty...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Congress should enhance reproductive health care for women veterans
Commentary
The incoming 116th Congress will contain not only the highest ever number of women, but also a record number of women veterans. As they consider what issues to take on, expand...
By Kayla M. Williams
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On Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for America and the opportunity to serve in the Navy Reserve
Commentary
I lead a double life. Most of the month, I’m a national security expert in Washington, D.C., offering my views on how the United States can compete with China to shape the cou...
By Daniel Kliman
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on The Smell of Victory Podcast
Podcast
On The Smell of Victory Podcast, Bob Hein and Phil Walter sat down with Loren DeJonge Schulman of the Center for a New American Security to discuss the draft. Listen to the f...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Mission Creep of Sending Troops To The US-Mexico Border
Commentary
The current plan to send at least 7,000 active-duty U.S. troops to the southern border for Operation Faithful Patriot undermines Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ entire defe...
By Emma Moore
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If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War
Commentary
In a little under three decades, nuclear weapons have gone from center stage to a sideshow in U.S. defense strategy. Since the 1990s, the United States has drastically reduced...
By Elbridge Colby
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What should be done with report on military sexual harassment and assault?
Commentary
After multiple delays, the Pentagon finally authorized RAND to release its report with estimates of installation- and command-level risk of military sexual assault and harassm...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Why ROTC is the overlooked tool to challenge the civil-military divide
The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) sits at a natural juncture between the military and society, operating on numerous college campuses across the country. ROTC Cadets a...
By Emma Moore
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Veterans: Answering the call to serve
In August, the veteran unemployment rate was 3.8 percent – the same as that for non-veterans – continuing a multi-year positive trend. The same month, Google announced that it...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Kayla M. Williams at America's Warrior Partnership Panel
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CNAS's Military, Veterans, and Society Program Director Kayla M. Williams spoke recently on a distinguished panel on the experience of women veterans reintegrating into civili...
By Kayla M. Williams
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What the 9/11 Commission Report Had to Say About Congressional Oversight
As longtime Lawfare readers know, I often take a moment around the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on some current issue of national security law and policy signifi...
By Carrie Cordero
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The Death of Political Courage
Commentary
More than a decade ago, Senator John McCain sought to stop the Bush administration’s attempt to weaken the protections offered by the Geneva Conventions. The provision at issu...
By Richard Fontaine
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Stand-To: Live From Washington D.C.! Real Stories of Health and Wellbeing
Podcast
Stand To is a national veterans convening, hosted by the George W. Bush Institute. In its second year, Stand To II brought influential leaders together with the purpose of adv...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Commentary: Success, or failure, of new Army Command rests on Congress
Commentary
In July, the U.S. Army announced that Austin will be the location for its new Futures Command headquarters. The command, intended to be the spearhead of the Army’s modernizati...
By Cole Stevens
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How The Media’s Narrow Portrayal Of Service Members Does The Military A Disservice
Commentary
As the American military becomes more isolated from society and society more disconnected from war, public understanding of its military will continue to impact the interest a...
By Emma Moore
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Pentagon Gender Gap Persists in Trump Era Even as Women Rise in Industry
Commentary
When Kathy Warden takes over as CEO of Northrop Grumman in January, women will run three of the primes, as the largest American defense firms are known. Warden joins Marillyn ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Loren DeJonge Schulman
