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At Trump’s Pentagon, Empty Offices Are the New Normal
In The News
The resignation of two senior Pentagon officials last week brings the number of vacancies and posts filled on a temporary basis at the U.S. Department of Defense to a new high...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Jim Townsend
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How Jeanne Shaheen Fills a Void in Trump’s Foreign Policy
In The News
It’s not easy being one of the few women to play a senior role in the making of American foreign policy. Twenty-five months into his presidency, Donald Trump’s national securi...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Declares National Emergency in ‘Slap in the Face to Military Families’
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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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The Pentagon’s National Military Strategy is done, and it’s unclear if the public will ever see it
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Gen. Joe Dunford, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has finished his new edition of the National Military strategy — but currently has no plans to roll out a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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American Troops Die in Syria as Trump Team Squabbles
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Two U.S. service members and two Department of Defense personnel were killed in an explosion in Syria on Wednesday, the U.S. military confirmed, even as President Donald Trump...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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How the Generals Are Routing the Policy Wonks at the Pentagon
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Frustrated by lack of influence and disheartened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, Department of Defense civilians are heading for the door, leaving key positions unf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
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As an Indian American woman, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has occupied an unusual position in an administration whose broad lack of diversity at the highest levels of the feder...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Why does the Pentagon keep getting surprised by Trump?
In The News
For much of his presidency, Donald Trump has backed the military, promising to support them as much as possible. But over the past two weeks, it seems that his administration ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump’s approach is hurting the U.S., foreign policy experts say
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President Donald Trump and his administration’s lack of a consistent and coherent foreign policy is confusing U.S. allies and ceding ground to countries that do not share Amer...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Was Air Force's Media Freeze Justified? Defense Experts Weigh In
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Bleak times may be ahead for the relationship between the press and U.S. military branches as officials maintain that operational security should outweigh public outreach, acc...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Lauren Fish on Bombshell: No Joy in Munchen
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This week, the Bombshell ladies welcomed CNAS expert Lauren Fish to talk all things FY19 defense budget, including why this big funding increase may not be all that it seems. ...
By Lauren Fish
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Can Mattis makes the National Defense Strategy great again?
BRUSSELS – When the Pentagon rolls out the National Defense Strategy on Jan. 19, expect a lot of statements about how it will serve as a definitive document, one that will gui...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Mattis delegates down and manages up in tricky Trump relationship
James Mattis, the first retired general to serve as secretary of defense in seven decades, has steadily pushed more authority down the chain of command on the battlefield and ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Sexism on America’s Front Lines
Laura Rosenberger remembers telling a senior State Department official that she was going on a beach vacation. He responded by saying how much he’d enjoy thinking about her we...
By Julianne Smith & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump’s generals condemn Charlottesville racism — while trying not to offend the president
One by one, the U.S. military’s most senior leaders have publicly — and bluntly — repudiated the racist violence that plunged Charlottesville into chaos Saturday, declaring th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump's Qatar Curveball Makes Tillerson Improvise Policy Again
As the Qatar crisis erupted this week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found himself performing a familiar task: assuring the world his boss didn’t mean to reverse years...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
President Trump has announced the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. Rich Lowry says the accord is a big nothing-burger, with the Left saying it's voluntary so wh...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Hits the Road. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
President Donald Trump is off to the Middle East, Brussels and Sicily -- not to mention a quick chat with Pope Francis. Especially for man who has made plain his distaste for ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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What We’re Reading (and Listening to): Bombshell
Welcome to the Interpreter newsletter, by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, who write a column by the same name. On our minds this week: Now that populism seems like the new hotn...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump nominates two new DOD officials
President Trump will nominate Robert Story Karem for assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs and Kari Bingen for principal deputy under secretary of ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
