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Trump's Afghanistan strategy stymied by vetting of local troops
The plan to turn around the war in Afghanistan may already be running into quicksand. An extensive effort aimed at weeding out Taliban sympathizers and terrorist infiltrators ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Lack of leadership in DoD’s personnel and readiness office could be detrimental, analysts say
The removal of David Shulkin as Veterans Affairs Department secretary at the end of March did more than make waves in the VA. It also caused a shuffle in leadership at one of ...
By Andrew Swick
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The Navy's Secret Wish: Bring Back the Old F-14 Tomcat from the Dead?
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The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airfram...
By Robert O. Work
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Army hopes new units will help break Afghanistan stalemate
FORT POLK, La. — Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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'Just painful': Pentagon mulls an overhaul of mandatory training policies
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KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Military leaders have said they’re overwhelmed by unnecessary training requirements, but seasoned officers at this airfield in southern Afgha...
By Andrew Swick
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Impact of State Department leadership shake-up on its employees
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Phillip Carter, Senior Fellow & Counsel at the Center for a New American Security discusses how officials at the State Department are feeling after Rex Tillerson’s departu...
By Phillip Carter
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Veterans Affairs chief, once a Trump favorite, fights for his job over ethical lapses
David Shulkin is struggling to hold on to his job as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs as he grapples with allegations of ethical missteps and mismanagement, as ...
By Phillip Carter
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Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump's plan to fix veterans' care
WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government's second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency's Washington headquarters...
By Phillip Carter
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‘It’s killing the agency’: Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump’s plan to fix veterans’ care
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government’s second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency’s Washington headquarters. He has canc...
By Phillip Carter
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War zones still waiting for a visit from Trump
Trump's absence from the war zones more than a year into this presidency stands in contrast to his immediate predecessor: Former President Barack Obama made his first of five ...
By Phillip Carter & Michèle Flournoy
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Performance Enhancers: From Battlefield to Playing Field
In the modern era, discussions about performance-enhancing technologies tend to take place primarily in the context of sports. Indeed, it is within that context that we have c...
By Robert O. Work
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Why Sending Armed Veterans to Guard Schools Would Be Ludicrous
On Wednesday, as families continued to bury their loved ones killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, President Trump suggested that one answer to ...
By Phillip Carter
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The Lawfare Podcast: Phil Carter on Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration
The military has been not been a refuge from the Trump administration's norm-defying nature. This week, Jack Goldsmith speaks to Phil Carter, a senior fellow at the Center for...
By Phillip Carter
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FY19 budget puts US ‘back to a position of primacy,’ Mattis says
ROME – A new budget agreement in Congress, coupled with the fiscal year 2019 budget, has given the Pentagon the ramp it needs to begin reshaping the U.S. military, defense sec...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Trump Proposes 10% Bump for the Pentagon — Then Four Flat Years
The Trump administration is proposing $3.6 trillion in Pentagon spending over the next five years, a budget that defense officials said positions the military to better compet...
By Susanna V. Blume
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White House targets VA’s deputy secretary as ‘a warning shot’ to agency’s leader
The White House wants to remove the Department of Veterans Affairs’ second-in-command as a “warning shot” to VA Secretary David Shulkin, an Obama-era holdover who has frustrat...
By Phillip Carter
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WMD Financing Elusive on International Playing Field
Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary of terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and ...
By Jonathan Brewer
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Training Quick and Staffing Unfinished, Army Units Brace for Surging Taliban
WASHINGTON — They are being heralded as a key part of President Trump’s new strategy to resolve the nearly 17-year war in Afghanistan. But their training has been cut short by...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The Army's latest weapon to turn around the war in Afghanistan
FORT POLK, La. — The Army has a new tool it hopes will finally tip the scales in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan — and potentially other Islamist insurgencies. But ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Highest-ranking female officer in Afghanistan would rather talk about war than gender
KABUL, Afghanistan — Sitting in her office at NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters one recent afternoon, Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes played down the history she made this summ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
