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Officials Temper Hegseth Claim of Army Recruiting Renaissance Under TrumpAs the Army celebrates its 250th birthday with an elaborately planned parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., the service is also touting an epic recruiting turnaround...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump Plans Broader Use of National Guard in Immigration EnforcementThe Trump administration wants to use the National Guard more broadly to enact the president’s immigration agenda, according to border czar Tom Homan, documents and people fam...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Soldier’s Suicide Exposes Military’s Struggle with Mental Health StigmaThe fiery New Year’s Day suicide of an Army Green Beret exposed the Pentagon’s struggle to identify and treat brain injuries and mental health issues, raising alarm among some...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Bronze Stars, Like Those Hegseth Earned, Are Common Among Military OfficersFor many military officers who serve in war zones, Bronze Stars are akin to a pass or fail, said Jason Dempsey, a former Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Russia’s Illicit Starlink Terminals Help Power Its Advance in Ukraine
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Before Starlink revolutionized the market, previous generations of field satellite terminals suffered from low speeds and high prices. Now users can buy terminals for a few hu...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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F-16 Fighter Jets Arrive in Ukraine but May Not Tip Advantage Against Russia
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Some analysts are even more skeptical than Zelensky. Becca Wasser, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, said the F-16s might be most potent as a psychological...
By Becca Wasser
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What the Pentagon Has Learned from Two Years of War in Ukraine
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The Ukraine conflict has challenged core assumptions. The war has become an attritional slugfest with each side attempting to wear down the other, a model thought to be anachr...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Strike in Baghdad Kills Key Militia Commander, Officials Say
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The Biden administration has opted for a strategy that falls short of holding Tehran itself accountable for supporting militant groups in the region, said Jonathan Lord, direc...
By Jonathan Lord
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Russia ramps up drone, guided bomb attacks to thwart counteroffensiveRussian state media has reported a ramp-up in production of Lancets, and at a cost estimated at $30,000 to $35,000, they are far cheaper than higher-end drones and missiles, s...
By Samuel Bendett
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Grieving Families Trusted an Army Financial Adviser. They Lost Fortunes.As the families seek to recoup their losses through litigation, their cases have alarmed observers and financial experts who say the episode appears to have exposed glaring ov...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Rollback of COVID Vaccine Mandate Met with Furor at PentagonKatherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, said disciplinary problems can arise when rank-and-file troops see th...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Ashton Carter, Defense Chief Who Opened Combat Roles to Women, Dies at 68Ashton B. Carter, a longtime adviser on nuclear and strategic policies who served as defense secretary in the last years of the Obama administration, overseeing the opening of...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S. Has Viewed Wreckage of Kamikaze Drones Russia Used in UkraineThe drones pose a significant problem, analysts say. Many defensive systems capable of defeating them are costly, designed mostly for bigger threats like jets and helicopters,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Vaccine Holdouts in U.S. Military Approach 40,000 Even as Omicron Variant Fuels Call for BoostersThe number of active-duty U.S. military personnel declining to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by their prescribed deadlines is as high as 40,000, with new Army data sho...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines nearHundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon’s first compliance deadlines near, with ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Deaths of 2 Marines in Kabul underscore the evolving roles of women in the militaryClad in body armor with her hair pulled back in a tight bun, Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee cradled the barefoot Afghan infant in her arm as softly as she could through thick work glo...
By Kyleanne Hunter
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Taliban show off U.S.-made weapons and gear in a bid to intimidate, project authority“They want to convey not just authority, but intimidating authority,” said Katherine L. Kuzminski, a military policy expert at the Center for a New American Security think tan...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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South Dakota governor sending National Guard to Mexico border on mission funded by GOP megadonorSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) will deploy up to 50 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, her office said Tuesday, with a highly unusual caveat — the missio...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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‘We cut too deep’: Air Force reinstates hundreds of ROTC cadets after dismissals spark backlashThe Air Force reversed its decision to dismiss hundreds of reserve officer training cadets and restored nearly 130 scholarships, officials said, after a lobbying effort assail...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Army will encourage urgency to find missing soldiers after high-profile disappearancesThe Army is planning to introduce a policy calling for more urgency in finding missing soldiers, top leaders said, after a handful of high-profile disappearances at Fort Hood ...
By Kayla M. Williams
