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National Security Human Capital
Pentagon Gender Gap Persists in Trump Era Even as Women Rise in IndustryWhen Kathy Warden takes over as CEO of Northrop Grumman in January, women will run three of the primes, as the largest American defense firms are known. Warden joins Marillyn ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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National Security Human Capital
Veterans Affairs Secretary Wilkie should expand care to transgender veteransThis week Robert Wilkie was confirmed as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. I had the honor of serving under him as Director of VA’s Center for Women Veterans during his brief ten...
By Kayla M. Williams
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National Security Human Capital
Pentagon Questioned Over Blackout On War Zone Troop NumbersFor more than a decade, if you wanted to know how many U.S. troops there were in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, you could readily find that information at a public Pe...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital
The Marine Corps Is Not Lowering Fitness and Training StandardsTwo years into integrating women into combat arms roles, the debate has been reignited by a recent change in graduation requirements at Marine Corps Infantry Officer Corps (IO...
By Emma Moore
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National Security Human Capital
How To Fix The Army’s Recruiting CrisisAlmost 17 years into Global War on Terror operations, the gulf that marks the familiarity gap between the military and society seems larger than ever. Trends show a growing bu...
By Emma Moore & James Fahy
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National Security Human Capital
Tell voters in real time if adversaries like Russia try to hack and manipulate electionsThis month’s primaries mark the official kickoff of an election cycle that will carry major consequences for America and the world. Yet questions loom over whether voters can ...
By Shawn Turner
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National Security Human Capital
Combat HighAfew months before the United States invaded Iraq, in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, was asked on a radio show how long the war would take. “Five da...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital
The Pentagon’s Wars: Winning at Home While Losing OverseasWith his latest book, The Pentagon’s Wars, Mark Perry has written an informative volume about the pinnacle of national security decision-making — the interaction between the J...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital
Choose Carefully, Mr. PresidentThe scandalous withdrawal of VA secretary nominee Adm. Ronny Jackson on Thursday was just the latest episode in a long stretch of chaos at the Department of Veterans Affairs. ...
By Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital
Chaos Awaits Ronny Jackson at the VAIn the 88 years since the founding of the modern Department of Veterans Affairs, presidents have mostly turned to retired military officers and politicos to run the massive ag...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Firing VA Secretary David Shulkin Is a Bad IdeaDr. David Shulkin, the current secretary of veterans affairs and the only Democrat in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, has done fairly well running the VA. At a signing cerem...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
DoD must consider non-traditional approaches to military serviceLast week the Pentagon began to follow through with Secretary Jim Mattis’ promise to increase military “lethality” by removing all service members who have been on “non-deploy...
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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National Security Human Capital
Uncivil Military Relations?We had many indications during the 2016 campaign that a Donald Trump presidency would be bad for civil-military relations. The candidate hurled insults at prisoners of war and...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Why Sending Armed Veterans to Guard Schools Would Be LudicrousOn 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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National Security Human Capital
Mass Shootings Are a National Security ThreatSeventeen dead would have been a bad day in Iraq or Afghanistan at the height of our wars there. To see the same death toll Wednesday at a U.S. high school suggests American s...
By Phillip Carter
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Survival at All CostsOn its face, the so-called Nunes memo regarding government surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page in 2016 does little to undermine the case against President Trump an...
By Phillip Carter
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital
The Military Is Not a Political PropThe power of the president, as commander in chief of the armed forces, has evolved over more than two centuries, constrained by congressional action, the emergence of a standi...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
I’m an Iraq War veteran. The military doesn’t want or need Trump’s parade.A military parade down one of Washington’s broad avenues would seem to epitomize so much that is great about the United States, from the fine fiber of our troops to the might ...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
This Is Not a DrillThe erroneous “missile threat” alert sent to thousands of Americans’ phones in Hawaii on Saturday probably would have been dismissed as an obvious mistake if received just mon...
By Andrew Swick
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Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Nicole PilkusNicole Pilkus, Deputy Director of the Maritime Safety Office National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, talks with CNAS expert Julie Smith about her career in the defense indust...
By Julianne Smith & Nicole Pilkus
