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Dispelling the Myth of Women in Special Operations
Commentary
The military often promotes a culture of hypermasculinity and is largely seen as a “man’s world,” which is not surprising given that the overall number of active duty women of...
By Nicole Alexander & Lyla Kohistany
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WOTR Podcast: Civil-Military Relations Gone Wild?
Podcast
Debates over civil-military relations have reached a fever pitch since the 2016 presidential campaign and the beginning of the Trump administration. Many have focused on the t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Steven Foster, Alice Hunt Friend & Ryan Evans
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Predictive Medicine: Where the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Could Build a Bridge in Artificial Intelligence
With over 9.4 million patients in the Department of Defense (DoD) healthcare system and another 9 million patients enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthca...
By Dr. Ryan Kappedal & Dr. Niels Olson
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The Strategic Corporal: Send Non-Commissioned Officers to College
Commentary
Why is there not a path to a bachelor’s degree through full-time civilian education for enlisted service members who do not wish to commission afterward? The American populati...
By Andrea N. Goldstein & John Phillips
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Congress Should Vigorously Oversee Implementation of the Mission Act
Commentary
By Kayla M. Williams: Congress should rigorously oversee implementation of the Mission Act to ensure that quality of care and fiscal responsibility are not sacrificed to the i...
By Kayla M. Williams
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VA continues to fail male victims of military sexual trauma
Commentary
The problem of sexual harassment and assault in the United States military has been widely reported, often — though not always — framed as predominantly women’s issue. However...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Time for the U.S. to Learn Its Lessons from Afghanistan
Commentary
The United States failed in Afghanistan. The only points of debate left for analysts and historians are by how much and who is to blame. With negotiations and withdrawal plans...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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A Lack of Support Leaves the Reserves Broken
Commentary
After spending ten years as an active duty intelligence officer with the Marine Corps, I transitioned to the reserves, specifically the Selected Marine Corps Reserve component...
By Margaret Seymour
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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
