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Army Ups Recruiting Goal to 61,000 Soldiers in 2025, an 11% Jump
In The News
The Army will shoot to recruit 61,000 new soldiers in fiscal year 2025, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth announced Monday, an increase of 6,000 recruits after two recen...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Army Is Giving All Soldiers a $240 Special Pay While Deployed
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Soldiers will now see $240 per month in a new special duty pay when they are on deployments, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth announced Monday. Soldiers on an “operatio...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Navy Plans Better Fitting, More Functional Uniforms for Women Sailors
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As the number of female service members has increased over the years, the military branches have invested money in research and development to better tailor uniforms and body ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Pentagon Updates Guidance for Protecting Military Personnel from ‘Blast Overpressure’
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The U.S. Defense Department is going to require cognitive assessments for all new recruits as part of a broader effort to protect troops from brain injuries resulting from exp...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S. Army Wants Relieved Anti-Vaccine Soldiers Back as Recruitment Woes Loom
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The US Army wants to re-enlist soldiers who were discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccines as the service grapples with increasing recruitment challenges. According to a repor...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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CNAS Responds: The 50th Anniversary on the All-Volunteer Force
Press Note
Today, the United States celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American All-Volunteer Force. The establishment of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973 represented a pivotal transi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Brandon J. Archuleta, Taren Sylvester, Dr. Jason Dempsey & Ayla McBreen
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The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Families to Join
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Katherine Kuzminski, head of the Military, Veterans and Society Program at Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan security think tank, said the pandemic exacerbated ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm Kabul
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Just last month President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Navy's Century-Old SWO Career Path Needs Big Changes, Government Watchdog Says
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The federal government's watchdog agency is recommending that the Navy make significant changes to the Surface Warfare Officer, or SWO, career path. The Government Accountabil...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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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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'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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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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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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AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense
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President-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision. If conf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky.
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases across Afghanistan since the signing of a deal with the Taliban in February, according to Afghan and U.S. officials, part of a d...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump’s Afghan Troop Withdrawal Puts Biden in a Jam
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As President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boast...
By Jim Golby
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Trump’s just-announced troop drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, explained
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing a few thousand more service members home but still falling short of his promi...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden Family’s Military Ties May Influence Approach to Policy in White House
As the U.S. military awaits its new commander in chief, experts predict that the White House under Joe Biden will cut defense spending, encourage more social diversity in the ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists
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A retired brigadier general who called former President Barack Obama a terrorist. A former staffer to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes who wrote a memo accusing federal investigato...
By Jim Golby
