Articles & Multimedia
Showing 281-300 of 542 Publications
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Commentary
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
-
Commentary
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
-
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
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital
CNAS experts break down Trump's new National Security StrategyCNAS Deputy Director of Studies dives into the Trump administration's National Security Strategy, talking strategy development, messaging, and implementation with CNAS experts...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Jerry Hendrix, Ilan Goldenberg & Daniel Kliman
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Amanda SloatAmanda Sloat of the Brookings Institution shares what it's like working as a woman in national security....
By Dr. Amanda Sloat
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
A Rorschach Test for Civil-Military RelationsEarlier this week, I wrote in Slate about how America’s military leaders have seemingly improvised a new norm of civil-military relations in response to President Donald Trump...
By Phillip Carter
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Military Chiefs’ Reluctance to MarchIn a dizzying series of tweets and news stories on Monday, the Pentagon appeared to simultaneously embrace transgender recruits while the Trump administration was losing its b...
By Phillip Carter
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Foreign National Recruitment Must Stay True to Its Roots Under Trump AdministrationLast December, the U.S. Department of Defense suspended the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest Program, which responsible for recruiting foreign nationals livi...
By Jennie Kim & Jeesue Lee
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Emma AshfordEmma Ashford, a Cato Institute research fellow with expertise in international security and the politics of energy, shares her experiences working as a woman in national secur...
By Emma Ashford
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Mara KarlinMara Karlin, a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, discusses the roadblocks that kee...
By Mara Karlin & Loren DeJonge Schulman
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Dual-Military Families Need Help From The Service That They Aren’t GettingWhen Renee Swift, an Air Force officer, married an active-duty Navy pilot, the couple added to their already-challenging careers a third, seemingly full-time job: coordinating...
By Amy Schafer & Moira Fagan
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Alina PolyakovaAlina Polyakova, the David Rubenstein Fellow for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, discusses the options available to women who want to work in national security....
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Julie Smith, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kate KidderCNAS experts Kate Kidder, Julie Smith, and Loren DeJonge Schulman discuss why they launched the women in national security project, what they've learned, and their personal st...
By Julianne Smith, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Katherine Kidder
-
Podcast
National Security Human Capital / National Security Law
Women in National Security: Alice Hunt FriendCNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow Alice Friend Hunt speaks on the importance of self-confidence and the ways in which men can help women succeed in national security....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Alice Hunt Friend
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Russia Loves a Shunned U.S. SoldierThe photo shows a service member’s spouse weeping over her husband’s flag-draped casket, under a headline quoting an out of context snippet of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testi...
By Andrew Swick
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
Washington Is Never Quite Sure Where It Is at WarThe United States is a nation at war. But for much of the past two decades, a great deal of the Pentagon’s overseas activities would not technically classify as combat, with a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
-
Commentary
National Security Human Capital
The War on ApathyRight now, Congress has no incentive to rein in America’s military actions around the world. A threat to reinstate the draft would give it one....
By Amy Schafer
