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CNAS Responds: Week One of the Biden PresidencyA week in, the Biden administration has made a series of moves across national security policy. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack key developments and possible outcom...
By Richard Fontaine, Carrie Cordero, Chris Dougherty, Jason Bartlett, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth, Emma Moore, Carisa Nietsche, Ainikki Riikonen & Rachel Ziemba
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National Security Human Capital Program
What Should Be Addressed in Austin’s Confirmation Hearing for Defense Secretary?Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing to become defense secretary. If confirmed, he would be...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Senators to grill Austin on domestic threats, civilian control of DefensePresident-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, is likely to face tough questions during his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Armed Service...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital Program
General education: What Austin can learn from Mattis’s rocky relationship with CongressThe Warrior Monk was having a bad meeting. At the Capitol in the fall of 2017, Sen. John McCain was fuming to then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Unless Mattis turned over the ...
By Jim Golby
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Far-Right Militias Pose Greatest Threat to US National Security, Experts SayFar-right militias pose the greatest threat to the national security of the United States, experts tell Newsweek. In stark language, they warned of the increasingly grave risk...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Conspiracy theories and a call for patriots entice veterans at the CapitolThe day President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, Jeremy Michael Brown, a retired Special Forces soldier with multiple combat tours, was in Washington, D.C., dressed f...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
Who decides when there are helicopters? Experts weigh in on National Guard monitoring protestsIt was not lost on many Americans — including President-elect Joe Biden — that after a violent mob of President Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol in Washington,...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Vaccination crisis: The National Guard is being mobilized to come to the rescueIn a bid to speed up the vaccine roll-out, states are enlisting their National Guards. More than 20,000 members of the National Guard are engaged in the vaccination mission, w...
By Emma Moore
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Pelosi says she spoke to top general about ensuring Trump doesn’t launch nuclear attackSpeaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues Friday that she had spoken to the Pentagon’s top general about keeping an “unstable president” from accessing the nuclear codes,...
By Jim Golby
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National Security Human Capital Program
Trump is just itching to declare martial lawSome dangerous ideas about the role of the U.S. military in American civil society are finding an audience in President Donald Trump. Both the New York Times and Axios report ...
By Jim Golby
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
‘This can’t be my Army’ — The Fort Hood report is a long-overdue wake-up call for Army leadersWhen Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston finished reading an independent committee’s review of Fort Hood — every single line of the 152 pages, he says — he flipped back to ...
By Emma Moore
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In The News
Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as secretary of defensePresident-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision. If conf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
4 looming foreign policy crises that could derail Biden’s agenda early onPresident-elect Joe Biden may want his administration to focus on long-term issues like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, rebuilding alliances, and America’s relations...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky.The United States has closed at least 10 bases across Afghanistan since the signing of a deal with the Taliban in February, according to Afghan and U.S. officials, part of a d...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Trump’s Afghan Troop Withdrawal Puts Biden in a JamAs President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boast...
By Jim Golby
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Trump’s just-announced troop drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, explainedPresident Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing a few thousand more service members home but still falling short of his promi...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
Biden Family’s Military Ties May Influence Approach to Policy in White HouseAs the U.S. military awaits its new commander in chief, experts predict that the White House under Joe Biden will cut defense spending, encourage more social diversity in the ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalistsA retired brigadier general who called former President Barack Obama a terrorist. A former staffer to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes who wrote a memo accusing federal investigato...
By Jim Golby
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Commandant’s Reading List includes books about female Marines for the first time ― but is it enough?The Marine Corps overhauled the Commandant’s Reading List in 2020 in a modernization effort to become more relevant to the modern-day Marine. As part of the process, the Corps...
By Kayla M. Williams
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National Security Human Capital Program
Air Force takes steps to clear path for women’s advancementWhen Alexandra Jackson joined the West Virginia Air National Guard in 2018, she was looking forward to becoming a pilot with the 167th Airlift Wing, like her father. But at 5-...
By Kayla M. Williams
