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What National Guard Training Can Tell Us About Policing ProtestsA National Guard soldier called in to help quell protests in Louisville fatally shot Kentucky restaurant owner David McAtee. Residents of Louisville were already reeling from ...
By Emma Moore
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National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security
Trump to Pull Thousands of U.S. Troops From GermanyPresident Trump has directed the Pentagon to remove thousands of American troops from Germany by September, a move that would dramatically reshape the U.S. military posture in...
By Jim Townsend
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National Security Human Capital Program
Love of country: US ready for mandatory national service?When Xavier Jennings was a teenager, money was tight for his single mother, who had five children, and he felt a duty to help out. He applied for jobs at Walmart and McDonald’...
By Emma Moore
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
The president is a danger to the US militaryWhen President Donald Trump looks at the military he leads, he doesn’t see a diverse group of Americans doing their jobs to protect and defend the country. He sees a massive f...
By Paul Scharre
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National Security Human Capital Program
Trump stokes backlash with threat to use military against protestersPresident Trump’s threat to deploy active-duty military to quell protests across the country has raised concerns about the appropriateness of using U.S. armed forces to bolste...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
Use of medical helicopter to target protesters is under investigation, National Guard saysOn the battlefield, the roar of helicopter blades paired with a Red Cross is salvation for wounded troops and civilians. But the thwomping blades of military helicopters, inc...
By Dr. Kyleanne Hunter
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National Security Human Capital Program
As veterans face heightened unemployment risk, ‘Call of Duty’ lends a handOver the last nine weeks, more than 38.6 million Americans have filed unemployment claims as the covid-19 pandemic continues to impact the U.S. economy. Massive layoffs due to...
By Nathalie Grogan
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
For most of Afghanistan war, U.S. ‘never really fought to win,’ Trump declaresPresident Trump on Monday declared that the United States had “never really fought to win” in Afghanistan, except early in the nearly two-decade-long war, making a sweeping st...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Military faces another potential coronavirus toll: Budget cutsAs the novel coronavirus has swept the globe, Pentagon officials have scrambled to adjust everything from basic training to submarine deployments to prevent the pandemic from ...
By Robert F. Hale
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National Security Human Capital Program
Veteran unemployment up to nearly 12 percent amid coronavirus crisisVeterans unemployment jumped to nearly 12 percent in April as the country’s total jobless rate rose to its highest levels since the Great Depression because of the ongoing cor...
By Nathalie Grogan
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program Launches New Initiative: Unfit: Addressing the Military's Eligibility CrisisThe CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program today announced the launch of “Unfit: Addressing the Military's Eligibility Crisis,” an initiative examining the national secu...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Military ‘Burn Pits’ Trashed These Veterans’ Lungs. Then the Virus Hit.When she contracted the novel coronavirus, Elana Duffy remembered the acrid smoke she breathed in from her Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, where jet fuel burned everything...
By Emma Moore
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic WorldThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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National Security Human Capital Program
Military branches were set to cut nearly 18,000 medical workers. Coronavirus brought that to a halt.The agencies that oversee the health of U.S. military personnel and veterans were pushing ahead this spring with the biggest overhaul of their health systems in three decades....
By Kayla M. Williams
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National Security Human Capital Program
Navy Docks Carrier, Marines Weigh Buzz Cuts as Virus SpreadsThe Pentagon is struggling to stay ahead of the expanding coronavirus pandemic as early missteps start piling up, a scattershot response sows confusion and the Navy is forced ...
By Emma Moore
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In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Bringing Back the Draft: 5 Possibilities for the Future of Military ConscriptionLate in the evening on Jan. 2, as Americans contemplated a return to work after the New Year holiday, shocking news began to ricochet across the internet: The United States ha...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
ROTC at black colleges? How Pentagon aims to diversify military brass.As a first-generation college student in Texas, George Bolton was hooked on an Army career through the stories of the Buffalo soldiers, the black cavalry units formed in 1866 ...
By Nathalie Grogan
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Veterans Of Afghanistan Conflict React To Negotiations Between U.S. And Taliban...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital Program
Inspector general to probe whether VA chief Wilkie tried to discredit Democratic aide who reported sexual assaultThe Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general has opened an investigation into allegations that Secretary Robert Wilkie tried to dig up dirt on an aide to a top Democr...
By Kayla M. Williams
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National Security Human Capital Program
US, Taliban Reach Deal for 7-Day 'Reduction of Violence,' SecDef SaysDefense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday that a tentative deal has been reached between the U.S. and the Taliban on a seven-day "reduction of violence" in Afghanistan. "The...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
