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War zones still waiting for a visit from Trump
Trump's absence from the war zones more than a year into this presidency stands in contrast to his immediate predecessor: Former President Barack Obama made his first of five ...
By Phillip Carter & Michèle Flournoy
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Performance Enhancers: From Battlefield to Playing Field
In the modern era, discussions about performance-enhancing technologies tend to take place primarily in the context of sports. Indeed, it is within that context that we have c...
By Robert O. Work
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Why Sending Armed Veterans to Guard Schools Would Be Ludicrous
On Wednesday, as families continued to bury their loved ones killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, President Trump suggested that one answer to ...
By Phillip Carter
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The Lawfare Podcast: Phil Carter on Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration
The military has been not been a refuge from the Trump administration's norm-defying nature. This week, Jack Goldsmith speaks to Phil Carter, a senior fellow at the Center for...
By Phillip Carter
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FY19 budget puts US ‘back to a position of primacy,’ Mattis says
ROME – A new budget agreement in Congress, coupled with the fiscal year 2019 budget, has given the Pentagon the ramp it needs to begin reshaping the U.S. military, defense sec...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Trump Proposes 10% Bump for the Pentagon — Then Four Flat Years
The Trump administration is proposing $3.6 trillion in Pentagon spending over the next five years, a budget that defense officials said positions the military to better compet...
By Susanna V. Blume
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White House targets VA’s deputy secretary as ‘a warning shot’ to agency’s leader
The White House wants to remove the Department of Veterans Affairs’ second-in-command as a “warning shot” to VA Secretary David Shulkin, an Obama-era holdover who has frustrat...
By Phillip Carter
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WMD Financing Elusive on International Playing Field
Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary of terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and ...
By Jonathan Brewer
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Training Quick and Staffing Unfinished, Army Units Brace for Surging Taliban
WASHINGTON — They are being heralded as a key part of President Trump’s new strategy to resolve the nearly 17-year war in Afghanistan. But their training has been cut short by...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The Army's latest weapon to turn around the war in Afghanistan
FORT POLK, La. — The Army has a new tool it hopes will finally tip the scales in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan — and potentially other Islamist insurgencies. But ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Highest-ranking female officer in Afghanistan would rather talk about war than gender
KABUL, Afghanistan — Sitting in her office at NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters one recent afternoon, Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes played down the history she made this summ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Members of Congress join the 21CF-CNAS screening of Nat Geo’s ‘The Long Road Home’
On Nov. 1, 21CF and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the first event in a new national security-themed film and television series in Washington, D.C., feat...
By Phillip Carter
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These generals are following orders — even as they lead America off a cliff
“If you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that is something highly inappropriate.” When Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke these words about White H...
By Phillip Carter
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Kelly has widened the gap between the military and the rest of us
When White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General John Kelly participated in a press conference on Thursday, he delivered an emotional, moving, and ultimately divisiv...
By Amy Schafer
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For some veterans, John Kelly’s remarks add to a worrying military-civilian divide
The deaths of four Special Forces soldiers in Niger this month have sparked wider debate about military service, the civilian-military divide in the United States and the cont...
By Phillip Carter
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Kelly, in Defending Trump Call, Holds Up Military as an Elite Class
WASHINGTON — When John F. Kelly stood in the White House briefing room on Thursday and described how the remains of American troops killed in combat are shipped home and then ...
By Phillip Carter
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Pentagon Says Storm Response Will Slow Combat Deployments
WASHINGTON—Defense Department efforts to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria will delay troop deployments to Afghanistan and affect deployments across the globe into...
By Phillip Carter
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An Unfit President Fails Puerto Rico
In the frustrated anguish of Puerto Rico, we can see the real-world consequences of Donald Trump’s flagrant incompetence. A little more than eight months ago, the United State...
By Phillip Carter
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Those Serving In The US Military Don’t Actually Represent The Country As A Whole
In The News
Under the Trump administration, the likelihood that the nation goes to war seems to be at an all-time high. But is it really “the nation” that goes to war these days? The mili...
By Amy Schafer
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Trump wants to kick trans troops out. “Deployability” might keep them in.
President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender troops from serving in the military alarmed top military and civilian defense officials. But a little-known provision may gi...
By Amy Schafer
