Latest Cuts at Military Times Accelerates Decline of News Source to Airmen, Guardians

Katherine Kuzminski, Deputy Director of Studies and the Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said the civilian-military divide has grown wider in the 50 years since the transition to an all-volunteer force in 1973, but journalists who specialize in the military beat can help close that gap.

“On the one hand, fewer journalists can lead to less attention paid to quality of life-related issues for service members,” she said. “On the other hand, it can do the opposite, which is essentially build a military that lives on a pedestal not reflective of reality. Then it’s easier for civilians to be disillusioned when the military does not live up to that pedestal.”

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