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National Security Human Capital
The National Guard Is Stuck in the Middle of Political Infighting, and It’s Getting WorseThe governor of Oklahoma versus the Biden administration. The governor of Texas versus the Biden administration. The governor of South Dakota versus the Biden administration. ...
By Nathalie Grogan
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National Security Human Capital
Air Force Opens Door for Select Few From the Enlisted Ranks to Become OfficersThe airmen involved in the Air Force’s enlisted drone pilot program have a great shot at becoming officers and remaining pilots if they want to, the top officer and enlisted a...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
Gunnery Sergeants Who Never Went to Boot Camp? It May Be Coming in the Marine CorpsEnlisted Marines are made in boot camp. Marine officers, The Basic School. Long days and harsh instructors give sharp lessons in what it means to be a Marine and forge a bond ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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