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Why the Pentagon isn’t heeding calls to prosecute Michael Flynn under military law
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When Michael Flynn, a retired three-star general, appeared to back calls for a coup last week, critics accused him of defying military deference to civilian authority, a tenet...
By James Golby
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US Training Mission Uncertain as Afghan Withdrawal Nears End
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The fate of the international effort to train Afghan national security forces has become increasingly unclear as Pentagon officials point to other priorities with only about t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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This Memorial Day, remember those who died in Afghanistan, and the loved ones they left behind
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It was a graduation gift from his mother, a chance to skydive.Quinn Johnson-Harris of Milwaukee made that first jump and declared: "I'm going to live in the sky."And he did, j...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Many served, some died: Nebraskans look back on the Afghanistan War
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The long-awaited, long-delayed final pullout of U.S. and NATO forces after 20 years of war in Afghanistan has finally begun. President Joe Biden set a deadline of Sept. 11 for...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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'Disturbing and reckless': Retired brass spread election lie in attack on Biden, Democrats
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A day after 124 retired generals and admirals released a letter spreading the lie that President Joe Biden stole the election, current and former military officers are speakin...
By Jim Golby
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‘We cut too deep’: Air Force reinstates hundreds of ROTC cadets after dismissals spark backlash
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The Air Force reversed its decision to dismiss hundreds of reserve officer training cadets and restored nearly 130 scholarships, officials said, after a lobbying effort assail...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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CNAS Responds: Assessing the Biden Administration's First 100 Days
Press Note
President Biden will mark his first 100 days in office with a joint session address to Congress this evening. In the press note below, CNAS experts offer insights and reflecti...
By Richard Fontaine, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Ilan Goldenberg, Lisa Curtis, Martijn Rasser, Jacob Stokes, Ainikki Riikonen, Megan Lamberth, Nathalie Grogan & Jim Townsend
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‘Support Our Troops’ No Longer Automatic as Trust in Military Falls
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Super Bowl flyovers, TV commercials celebrating veterans, yellow-ribbon bumper stickers: It’s long been reflexive for Americans of all political persuasions to “support our tr...
By James Golby
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‘No Victory Dance’: Veterans of Afghan War Feel Torn Over Pullout
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Was it worth it? After two decades of midnight watches and gut-twisting patrols down bomb-riddled roads, after all the deaths and bloodshed and lost years, that was the one in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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America’s Next Insurgency
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Bleeding Kansas began with an eviction attempt. In late 1854, Jacob Branson, an abolitionist from Ohio, started trying to kick Franklin Coleman, a slavery proponent, off his p...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Where Fitness Is the Job, Army Struggles to Be a Fair Boss With Female Troops
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For 99 percent of Americans, this question will never come up in a job interview: Can you hang from a bar and tuck your legs to your chest? It has, however, become a central i...
By Emma Moore
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CNAS Responds: Assessing Biden's Interim National Security Strategy
Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive Officer: "National Security Strategies do more signaling than strategizing. They resemble not true strategies so much as really long speeches...
By Richard Fontaine, Lisa Curtis, Chris Dougherty, Martijn Rasser, Dr. Nina Kollars, Michael Kofman, Becca Wasser, Nathalie Grogan, Katie Galgano & Jennie Matuschak
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CNAS Responds: Week One of the Biden Presidency
Press Note
A week in, the Biden administration has made a series of moves across national security policy. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack key developments and possible outcom...
By Richard Fontaine, Carrie Cordero, Chris Dougherty, Jason Bartlett, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth, Emma Moore, Carisa Nietsche, Ainikki Riikonen & Rachel Ziemba
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What Should Be Addressed in Austin’s Confirmation Hearing for Defense Secretary?
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Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing to become defense secretary. If confirmed, he would be...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Senators to grill Austin on domestic threats, civilian control of Defense
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, is likely to face tough questions during his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Armed Service...
By Richard Fontaine
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General education: What Austin can learn from Mattis’s rocky relationship with Congress
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The Warrior Monk was having a bad meeting. At the Capitol in the fall of 2017, Sen. John McCain was fuming to then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Unless Mattis turned over the ...
By Jim Golby
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Far-Right Militias Pose Greatest Threat to US National Security, Experts Say
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Far-right militias pose the greatest threat to the national security of the United States, experts tell Newsweek. In stark language, they warned of the increasingly grave risk...
By Richard Fontaine
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Conspiracy theories and a call for patriots entice veterans at the Capitol
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The day President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, Jeremy Michael Brown, a retired Special Forces soldier with multiple combat tours, was in Washington, D.C., dressed f...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Who decides when there are helicopters? Experts weigh in on National Guard monitoring protests
It was not lost on many Americans — including President-elect Joe Biden — that after a violent mob of President Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol in Washington,...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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Vaccination crisis: The National Guard is being mobilized to come to the rescue
In a bid to speed up the vaccine roll-out, states are enlisting their National Guards. More than 20,000 members of the National Guard are engaged in the vaccination mission, w...
By Emma Moore
