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Veterans: Answering the call to serve
Commentary
In August, the veteran unemployment rate was 3.8 percent – the same as that for non-veterans – continuing a multi-year positive trend. The same month, Google announced that it...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Kayla M. Williams at America's Warrior Partnership Panel
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CNAS's Military, Veterans, and Society Program Director Kayla M. Williams spoke recently on a distinguished panel on the experience of women veterans reintegrating into civili...
By Kayla M. Williams
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What the 9/11 Commission Report Had to Say About Congressional Oversight
Commentary
As longtime Lawfare readers know, I often take a moment around the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on some current issue of national security law and policy signifi...
By Carrie Cordero
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The Death of Political Courage
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More than a decade ago, Senator John McCain sought to stop the Bush administration’s attempt to weaken the protections offered by the Geneva Conventions. The provision at issu...
By Richard Fontaine
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Stand-To: Live From Washington D.C.! Real Stories of Health and Wellbeing
Podcast
Stand To is a national veterans convening, hosted by the George W. Bush Institute. In its second year, Stand To II brought influential leaders together with the purpose of adv...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Commentary: Success, or failure, of new Army Command rests on Congress
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In July, the U.S. Army announced that Austin will be the location for its new Futures Command headquarters. The command, intended to be the spearhead of the Army’s modernizati...
By Cole Stevens
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How The Media’s Narrow Portrayal Of Service Members Does The Military A Disservice
Commentary
As the American military becomes more isolated from society and society more disconnected from war, public understanding of its military will continue to impact the interest a...
By Emma Moore
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Pentagon Gender Gap Persists in Trump Era Even as Women Rise in Industry
Commentary
When 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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Veterans Affairs Secretary Wilkie should expand care to transgender veterans
Commentary
This 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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Pentagon Questioned Over Blackout On War Zone Troop Numbers
Podcast
For 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 publ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The Marine Corps Is Not Lowering Fitness and Training Standards
Commentary
Two 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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How To Fix The Army’s Recruiting Crisis
Commentary
Almost 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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Tell voters in real time if adversaries like Russia try to hack and manipulate elections
Commentary
This 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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Combat High
Commentary
Afew 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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The Pentagon’s Wars: Winning at Home While Losing Overseas
Commentary
With 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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Choose Carefully, Mr. President
Commentary
The 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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Chaos Awaits Ronny Jackson at the VA
Commentary
In 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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Firing VA Secretary David Shulkin Is a Bad Idea
Commentary
Dr. 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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DoD must consider non-traditional approaches to military service
Last 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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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
