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‘No One Quite Knows What to Say’: A War Easily Ignored Ends With Few Answers
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At the main gate of this busy Army post is a sandstone slab etched with the names of Fort Carson soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The slab ran out of room for names in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghan war vets sound off on U.S. withdrawal, Taliban’s return to power
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When the Taliban swept across Afghanistan as if the central government didn't even exist, it was almost like an erasure of history. Twenty years of war cast aside, as if none ...
By Paul Scharre
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Afghanistan collapse into Taliban rule devastates Wisconsin veterans, human rights advocates
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More than 2,300 Americans lost their lives and another 20,000 were wounded in the 20-year, $2 trillion war in Afghanistan. And in just days, the country was taken over by the ...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he’s desperately fleeing Afghanistan.
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The voice on the phone from Kandahar Airfield sounded exhausted and resigned, as if not much hope was left. Lt. Col. Mohammad Iqbal Nuristani had managed to get the bulk of hi...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
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Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America’s warrior and diplomatic class that history was starting anew fo...
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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‘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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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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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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Jim Golby Joins CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Military, Veterans, and Society Program
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Jim Golby, Senior Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at The University of Texas at A...
By Cole Stevens
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As veterans face heightened unemployment risk, ‘Call of Duty’ lends a hand
Over the last nine weeks, more than 38.6 million Americans have filed unemployment claims as the covid-19 pandemic continues to impact the U.S. economy. Massive layoffs due to...
By Nathalie Grogan
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Veteran unemployment up to nearly 12 percent amid coronavirus crisis
Veterans unemployment jumped to nearly 12 percent in April as the country’s total jobless rate rose to its highest levels since the Great Depression because of the ongoing cor...
By Nathalie Grogan
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CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program Launches New Initiative: Unfit: Addressing the Military's Eligibility Crisis
The CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program today announced the launch of “Unfit: Addressing the Military's Eligibility Crisis,” an initiative examining the national secu...
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Military ‘Burn Pits’ Trashed These Veterans’ Lungs. Then the Virus Hit.
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When she contracted the novel coronavirus, Elana Duffy remembered the acrid smoke she breathed in from her Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, where jet fuel burned everything...
By Emma Moore
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Military branches were set to cut nearly 18,000 medical workers. Coronavirus brought that to a halt.
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The agencies that oversee the health of U.S. military personnel and veterans were pushing ahead this spring with the biggest overhaul of their health systems in three decades....
By Kayla M. Williams
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Veterans Of Afghanistan Conflict React To Negotiations Between U.S. And Taliban
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By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Inspector general to probe whether VA chief Wilkie tried to discredit Democratic aide who reported sexual assault
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The Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general has opened an investigation into allegations that Secretary Robert Wilkie tried to dig up dirt on an aide to a top Democr...
By Kayla M. Williams
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How to Enroll in VA Health Care
If you are a veteran who served in active duty for at least 24 consecutive months and were honorably discharged, you're eligible to enroll in health care from the U.S. Departm...
By Kayla M. Williams
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2020 Candidates With Military Experience Struggle to Break Through
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Three Democratic 2020 candidates could boast of military service in America’s longest-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that experience is doing nothing for them in th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
