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Trump rankles veterans with comments about PTSD and California shooterSome veterans and mental-health advocates bristled at President Trump’s comments regarding the Thousand Oaks shooter and post-traumatic stress disorder, saying such broad-base...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Post-9/11 Vets' Groups Poised to Out-Raise Legacy Organizations, Report FindsOrganizations founded to serve veterans following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are raising money more quickly than their pre-9/11 counterparts, save at higher rates, ...
By Emma Moore
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AI experts tell MEPs ban on 'killer robots' is unrealisticA panel of defence and artificial intelligence (AI) experts on Wednesday (10 October) poured cold water on the feasibility of an international a ban on autonomous weapons syst...
By Wendy R. Anderson
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Democrats Are Ignoring One Key Voting Group: VeteransWith control of Congress at stake in next month’s midterm elections, Democrats have a rare opportunity to gain a foothold against President Trump’s Republican Party. But if th...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
