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‘What’s Your Warrior?’: Army Looks Past Combat to Sign Up Teens
In The News
The U.S. Army is banking on surprising late teens, who may know nothing about the military, with a new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign designed to help recruit more t...
By Emma Moore
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CNAS Responds: Trump Addresses China, Iran, Climate Change in UNGA Speech
Press Note
At the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) this morning, President Trump addressed world leaders on his vision of the United States' role on the global stage. Covering a range of fla...
By Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Kristine Lee, Sam Dorshimer & Emma Moore
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Veteran Entrepreneurs Advancing Startup Culture Outside of Silicon Valley
According to a new report from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), “Veteran Tech Entrepreneurial Ecosystems,” American veterans continue to play a significant role ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Coalition airstrikes soared even as US, Taliban talked peace
As U.S. and Taliban officials talked peace, the U.S. military was accelerating airstrikes in Afghanistan, with the biggest monthly tally of the year carried out in August as t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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2020 Democratic Primary Debates: Questions for the Candidates
Press Note
By Neil Bhatiya, Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Daniel Kliman, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Kayla M. Williams
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2020 Candidates With Military Experience Struggle to Break Through
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Three Democratic 2020 candidates could boast of military service in America’s longest-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that experience is doing nothing for them in th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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First sisters to become Army generals say it was ‘not a game of chance. It is hard work.’
One sister had wanted to be a soldier since she was young; the other planned to have a career in the Foreign Service. Both marked a milestone for the U.S. Army this summer: Ma...
By Emma Moore
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U.S. Army pushes to boost recruiting in Phoenix amid its enlistment crisis
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Scott Morley had never heard of West Point. He doesn’t come from a military family, and when he was in high school in the mid-1990s, he never considered serving in the armed f...
By Emma Moore
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Why leaving the military is harder for female vets
In The News
When she left the military in 2005, Jodie M. Grenier went from being on a team of intelligence analysts reporting to then-Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, with a top security cle...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Small charities make a big difference for veterans
In The News
Fresh from the Marine Corps and readjusting to civilian life as a college student in North Texas, Jason McClure was washing his hands when he heard something fall into the sin...
By Emma Moore
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VA Expands Vets' Access To Private Care But Gives No Plan To Pay For It
In The News
The VA Mission Act passed into law with broad bipartisan support last year, but that unity began to wane immediately, when President Trump signaled after signing it that he wo...
By Kayla M. Williams
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VA Approves Fewer Male Veterans' Claims for PTSD Related to Sexual Trauma
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The Department of Veterans Affairs approves claims for post-traumatic stress disorder related to military sexual assault at significantly lower rates for men than women -- a g...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Trump Declares National Emergency in ‘Slap in the Face to Military Families’
President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency will divert $3.6 billion earmarked for U.S. military construction projects—possibly hospitals and infrastructure ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Pentagon’s National Military Strategy is done, and it’s unclear if the public will ever see it
Gen. Joe Dunford, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has finished his new edition of the National Military strategy — but currently has no plans to roll out a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Recruiting soldiers
In The News
Emma Moore joins The World and Everything in It to discuss the causes underlying low rates of enlistment in the armed services by young Americans, as well as the National Comm...
By Emma Moore
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Army Real Talk: Perspectives
In The News
Co-hosts Nzinga Curry and Major (MAJ) Brad Cooper speak with young professionals CPT Jared Stefani and civilian Ms. Alexis Williams about careers, professional development, an...
By Jared Stefani
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Mission ‘Accomplished’? Trump Boasts of Being Boon for Military
Over the past two weeks, President Trump has repeatedly boasted of being a boon for the military. He has trumpeted the Pentagon’s $700 billion budget, taken credit for staving...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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What Does Military Service Look Like for a Gen Z Soldier?
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“It’s been the best-worst thing I’ve ever done.” That’s how Alex, a 22-year-old volunteer infantryman, sums up his past year as an enlisted Marine. He’s currently aboard a sh...
By Emma Moore
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U.S. Heightens Attacks on Taliban in Push Toward Peace in Afghanistan
The Pentagon has stepped up airstrikes and special operations raids in Afghanistan to the highest levels since 2014 in what Defense Department officials described as a coordin...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Eric Altamura and Carole House Join CNAS as Adjunct Research Assistants
Press Release
Washington, February 5, 2019 -- The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Eric Altamura and Carole House have joined the Center as adjunct rese...
