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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 / 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
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 / 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
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
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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
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
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
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
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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National Security Human Capital
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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National Security Human Capital
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
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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National Security Human Capital
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
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National Security Human Capital
White House Seeks to Establish More ROTC Programs at HBCUsThe White House Initiative on historically black colleges and universities wants HBCUs to expand Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs on their campuses and modernize...
By Emma Moore
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National Security Human Capital
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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National Security Human Capital
U.S. Army pushes to boost recruiting in Phoenix amid its enlistment crisisScott 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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National Security Human Capital
VA Approves Fewer Male Veterans' Claims for PTSD Related to Sexual TraumaThe 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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National Security Human Capital
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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National Security Human Capital
Recruiting soldiersEmma 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
