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A Woman? No Way!
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Who would have known that my commissioning in the U.S. Army would lead me to such an unthinkable assignment? I arrived in the Middle East as a country engagement officer. Alth...
By Asha Castleberry
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The (Mostly) Good News on Women in Combat
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Three years ago this month, 19 women from across the Army made history by reporting to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become the first women to attend U.S. Army Ranger School. As t...
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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U.S. Public Opinion on Addressing State Fragility
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Many of the most persistent and complex security threats to the United States continue to come from fragile states. A comprehensive 2016 report on state fragility argued, “Dom...
By Kate Bateman
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A Strategy for Enhancing Warfighter Survivability
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Introduction Survivability is an essential component of military effectiveness. Militaries have long invested in protection, such as helmets and armor, to improve the survivab...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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NATO's 2018 Summit
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On July 11–12 2018, NATO’s 29 members will convene at NATO Headquarters in Brussels for the first full-length summit since Warsaw in 2016. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg h...
By Julianne Smith, Jim Townsend & Rachel Rizzo
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Building the Future Force
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Key Takeaways and Next Steps The rates of technological advancement and proliferation are hastening. To understand what this means for the future requires long-term forecastin...
By Shawn Brimley, Jerry Hendrix, Lauren Fish, Adam Routh & Alexander Velez-Green
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No Safe Harbor
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Introduction China is challenging America’s and Japan’s long-standing ability to uphold a peaceful order in the Asia-Pacific region. This is particularly true in the East and ...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense
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The 2019 President’s Budget request for the Department of Defense grew by $40 billion over the total requested in 2018.1 We have spent the past four weeks assessing this reque...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President's Budget Request for Defense-wide
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The Defense-wide account, colloquially known as the Fourth Estate, provides funds for all DoD activities that do not fall under one of the military services, including the Off...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President's Budget Request for the Navy and Marine Corps
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The Department of the Navy’s budget request for 2019, which includes both the Navy and the Marine Corps, increased by just under 8 percent over the 2018 president’s budget req...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Women are the Most Visible Servicemembers, and the Most Invisible Veterans
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One of the questions I’m most frequently asked when people find out I’m a veteran is, “But you didn’t go in harm’s way, did you?” I’ve been asked this question since I first j...
By Andrea N. Goldstein
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MENtors
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What do Joan of Arc and Eleanor Roosevelt have in common? They represent two of only 10 statues depicting women among the hundreds that grace the parks and squares of our nat...
By LTC Christina Bembenek
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2019 President’s Budget Request for the Army
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The Army’s budget request saw more growth than any other service relative to the 2018 President’s budget request, gaining $16 billion or about 10 percent.1 With these addition...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President’s Budget Request for the Air Force
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The Air Force 2019 budget requests $194 billion in budget authority, an increase of $10 billion, or about 6 percent, over the fiscal year 2018 request.1 But the challenges the...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Needs Assessment
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Executive Summary The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that there are 21.6 million veterans living in the United States, making up 6.7 percent of the general popu...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Amy Schafer, Phillip Carter, Moira Fagan, Jeesue Lee & Andrew Swick
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Overview of the 2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense
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The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget request for the Department of Defense is $686 billion, an increase of $40 billion1 over the president’s fiscal year 2018 req...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Maternity and Paternity Leave
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One month into parenting our newborn, my wife and I, both national security officials, had an epiphany: No doubt some of the worst foreign policy decisions made by the United ...
By Mark R. Jacobson
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Ending Gender Shunning
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Something is seriously wrong with U.S. national security. In this case, I am not talking about the policy itself but about how we develop and discuss policy. Despite the advan...
By Joseph Cirincione
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What to Expect in the President’s 2019 Budget Request
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans to release President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget request on February 12. This budget request is the first that will have be...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Heartland Security
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Executive Summary The American Century earned its name from two phenomena: the paramount global leadership of the United States and the meteoric rise of the average American’s...
By Harry Krejsa
