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Pentagon Streamlines Clearances on Airstrikes and Raids, Officials Say
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The Trump administration has reduced the levels at which many military airstrikes and raids must be approved, U.S. officials said Friday, paving the way for the U.S. military ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Some Military Officers Worry That Pete Hegseth Could Turn a Blind Eye to U.S. War Crimes
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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, rose to prominence partly based on his searing criticism on Fox News of the rules governing U.S. troop...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Bronze Stars, Like Those Hegseth Earned, Are Common Among Military Officers
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For 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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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Mysterious Absence, Explained
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Jason Dempsey, a military veteran and former White House staffer who is now a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the affair was “certainly a mistake...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Petraeus Says Israel Should Try U.S.-Style Counterinsurgency in Gaza
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Jason Dempsey, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Military Times, “the only lesson on COIN that we as Americans have to offer or should b...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Republican Extremism Is Harming National Security
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According to veteran security officials and terrorism researchers, the widespread acceptance of conspiracy and disinformation amounts to “mass radicalization” of Americans and...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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‘We Never Got It. Not Even Close’: Afghanistan Veterans Reflect on 20 Years of War
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The last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan boarded a plane on Aug. 30, 2021. In the nearly two decades of war that preceded, more than 775,000 U.S. service members deployed to...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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‘No One Quite Knows What to Say’: A War Easily Ignored Ends With Few Answers
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At the main gate of this busy Army post is a sandstone slab etched with the names of Fort Carson soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The slab ran out of room for names in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.
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While the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces this week produced image after image of heartbreak as Afghans clung to cargo planes and women tried to lift babies over airport barri...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm Kabul
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Just last month President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Green and black
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General Mark Milley, the chairman of America’s joint chiefs of staff, and thus the country’s top military officer, provoked a furore in June when he defended West Point’s teac...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
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Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America’s warrior and diplomatic class that history was starting anew fo...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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As US troops leave Afghanistan, what will future policy look like?
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As the US nears completion of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is supposed to switch to “over-the-horizon” counter-terrorist operations in the country. B...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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U.S. leaves Bagram Airfield as America winds down its longest war
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All U.S. and coalition troops have left Bagram Airfield, once the largest base in Afghanistan and the hub of American air operations throughout the nearly two-decade conflict,...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden will meet President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan at the White House.
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President Biden will meet with the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, on Friday afternoon at the White House to discuss ways to ensure a safe future for a country increasingly un...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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US Training Mission Uncertain as Afghan Withdrawal Nears End
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The fate of the international effort to train Afghan national security forces has become increasingly unclear as Pentagon officials point to other priorities with only about t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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‘No Victory Dance’: Veterans of Afghan War Feel Torn Over Pullout
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Was it worth it? After two decades of midnight watches and gut-twisting patrols down bomb-riddled roads, after all the deaths and bloodshed and lost years, that was the one in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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America’s Next Insurgency
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Bleeding Kansas began with an eviction attempt. In late 1854, Jacob Branson, an abolitionist from Ohio, started trying to kick Franklin Coleman, a slavery proponent, off his p...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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What Should Be Addressed in Austin’s Confirmation Hearing for Defense Secretary?
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Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing to become defense secretary. If confirmed, he would be...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Conspiracy theories and a call for patriots entice veterans at the Capitol
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The day President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, Jeremy Michael Brown, a retired Special Forces soldier with multiple combat tours, was in Washington, D.C., dressed f...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
