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Pentagon Chief Issues COVID Vaccination Order for National GuardU.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered all National Guard and Reserve service members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face the loss of pay and other consequences...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
The Marine Corps wants junior Marines to have a say in who their leaders areJunior Marines could help determine whether officers and senior enlisted leaders are selected for promotion as part of the Marine Corps’ efforts to revamp its evaluation proce...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
Should Women Be Eligible for the Draft? Defense Bill Stirs Up Military DebateA measure that would make young women eligible for the military draft that is moving through Congress and could become law soon is stirring up a long-standing debate about the...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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National Security Human Capital Program
The debate over registering women for the draft is a waste of time: There is no draftEvery time lawmakers debate whether women should be required to register for the draft, I just want to yell: There is NO draft! President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
As defense disruptions loom, Biden eases up on vaccine refusersAs the first deadline under federal vaccination orders hit Tuesday, for active-duty Air Force personnel, the Biden administration said firing those who refuse jabs should not ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
US Military COVID Cases Lowest Since June as 1st Vaccine Deadlines ApproachNew COVID-19 cases among U.S. service members have been on a steady decline over the last month, as more service members have become vaccinated ahead of the Defense Department...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines nearHundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon’s first compliance deadlines near, with ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
American women will soon become eligible (in theory) for the draftMass conscription in wartime is a remote prospect in America. But were a draft called, the country’s conscripts might soon look very different. An amendment to the annual defe...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
Furor builds over top general Milley's role in Trump's final daysGen. Mark A. Milley, the embattled chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would have several more medals to add to his uniform if the Pentagon gave them for dodging artillery ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
‘We Never Got It. Not Even Close’: Afghanistan Veterans Reflect on 20 Years of WarThe last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan boarded a plane on Aug. 30, 2021. In the nearly two decades of war that preceded, more than 775,000 U.S. service members deployed to...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
Deaths of 2 Marines in Kabul underscore the evolving roles of women in the militaryClad in body armor with her hair pulled back in a tight bun, Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee cradled the barefoot Afghan infant in her arm as softly as she could through thick work glo...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Taliban show off U.S.-made weapons and gear in a bid to intimidate, project authority“They want to convey not just authority, but intimidating authority,” said Katherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at the Center for a New American Security think tan...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
‘No One Quite Knows What to Say’: A War Easily Ignored Ends With Few AnswersAt 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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National Security Human Capital Program
Vaccine resistance in the military remains strong, a dilemma for Pentagon as mandate loomsThe Pentagon’s effort to mandate coronavirus vaccination for all 1.3 million active-duty service members will continue to face resistance from a segment of the force, troops a...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program
Nebraska veterans, Gold Star families grapple with how Afghanistan War is endingBarb Yllescas-Vorthmann cried tears of grief a dozen years ago when a bomb on a bridge in a remote corner of Afghanistan fatally wounded her son, Capt. Rob Yllescas. He left b...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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National Security Human Capital Program
What Corporate America Can Learn From the Navy’s Vaccine CampaignThe corporate world may want to take a page out of the U.S. Navy’s manual when it comes to boosting workforce Covid-19 vaccination rates. The Navy is the pride of the U.S. mi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.While the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces this week produced image after image of heartbreak as Afghans clung to cargo planes and women tried to lift babies over airport barri...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Afghan war vets sound off on U.S. withdrawal, Taliban’s return to powerWhen 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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Afghanistan collapse into Taliban rule devastates Wisconsin veterans, human rights advocatesMore 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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm KabulJust last month President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey