Press
Showing 381-400 of 872 Items
-
Press Release
National Security Human Capital Program
Margaret Seymour joins CNAS as Adjunct Research Assistant in the Military, Veterans and Society ProgramWashington, September 26 -- The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Margaret Seymour has joined the Center as an Adjunct Research Assistant i...
-
In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Researchers Find Transgender Veterans Are as Healthy as Their Cisgender Peers“The navy was something I always wanted to do, ever since I saw the Blue Angels as a little kid,” Chief Petty Officer Sarah Sardinha tells me. “I knew I wanted to work on figh...
By Kayla M. Williams
-
Press Release
National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Welcomes Kayla Williams as Director of the Military, Veterans and Society ProgramWashington, DC July 12, 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Kayla M. Williams is joining CNAS as the new Director of the Mil...
By Madeline Christian
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Trump's Afghanistan strategy stymied by vetting of local troopsThe plan to turn around the war in Afghanistan may already be running into quicksand. An extensive effort aimed at weeding out Taliban sympathizers and terrorist infiltrators ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Lack of leadership in DoD’s personnel and readiness office could be detrimental, analysts sayThe removal of David Shulkin as Veterans Affairs Department secretary at the end of March did more than make waves in the VA. It also caused a shuffle in leadership at one of ...
By Andrew Swick
-
In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
The Navy's Secret Wish: Bring Back the Old F-14 Tomcat from the Dead?The F-35C was never designed to be an air superiority fighter. Indeed, naval planners in the mid-1990s wanted the JSF to be a strike-oriented aircraft with only a 6.5G airfram...
By Robert O. Work
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Army hopes new units will help break Afghanistan stalemateFORT POLK, La. — Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
-
In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
'Just painful': Pentagon mulls an overhaul of mandatory training policiesKANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Military leaders have said they’re overwhelmed by unnecessary training requirements, but seasoned officers at this airfield in southern Afgha...
By Andrew Swick
-
In The News
National Security Human Capital Program
Impact of State Department leadership shake-up on its employeesPhillip Carter, Senior Fellow & Counsel at the Center for a New American Security discusses how officials at the State Department are feeling after Rex Tillerson’s departu...
By Phillip Carter
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Veterans Affairs chief, once a Trump favorite, fights for his job over ethical lapsesDavid Shulkin is struggling to hold on to his job as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs as he grapples with allegations of ethical missteps and mismanagement, as ...
By Phillip Carter
-
National Security Human Capital Program
‘It’s killing the agency’: Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump’s plan to fix veterans’ careVeterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government’s second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency’s Washington headquarters. He has canc...
By Phillip Carter
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump's plan to fix veterans' careWASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government's second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency's Washington headquarters...
By Phillip Carter
-
National Security Human Capital Program
War zones still waiting for a visit from TrumpTrump'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
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Performance Enhancers: From Battlefield to Playing FieldIn 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
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Why Sending Armed Veterans to Guard Schools Would Be LudicrousOn 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
-
National Security Human Capital Program
The Lawfare Podcast: Phil Carter on Civil-Military Relations in the Trump AdministrationThe 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
-
National Security Human Capital Program
FY19 budget puts US ‘back to a position of primacy,’ Mattis saysROME – 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
-
National Security Human Capital Program
Trump Proposes 10% Bump for the Pentagon — Then Four Flat YearsThe 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
-
National Security Human Capital Program
White House targets VA’s deputy secretary as ‘a warning shot’ to agency’s leaderThe 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
-
National Security Human Capital Program / Energy, Economics & Security
WMD Financing Elusive on International Playing FieldSigal 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
