March 22, 2018

Women In National Security: Morgan Ortagus and Samantha Vinograd

Samantha Vinograd and Morgan Ortagus join the CNAS Women in National Security podcast to discuss their careers in national security, the private sector, and media, their evolving understanding of the concept of security, and how their long (and bipartisan!) friendship has shaped their lives.

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    Balancing Act: Ensuring the National Guard Can Meet Its Missions

    Taren Dillon Sylvester is a research assistant for the National Security Human Capital Program at the Center for a New American Security. In February 2025, New York Governor K...

    By Taren Sylvester

  • Commentary
    • May 27, 2025
    Extremist Militias on Federal Duty

    “Unorganized militia” is a statutory term that even most national security experts have never heard. Yet, in an instant it could go from a cobwebbed corner of the U.S. Code to...

    By Dakota S. Rudesill

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    • May 20, 2025
    Protecting the Integrity of the National Guard

    Posse comitatus, which is both a general principle and a criminal statute enshrined in the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA), dictates that there should be a clear separation between ...

    By Claire Finkelstein

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    • May 20, 2025
    Preventing the Use of the National Guard to Evade the Posse Comitatus Act

    Limitations on military involvement in civilian affairs have been a central feature of Anglo-American law for centuries. Armies are equipped and trained to vanquish enemies. I...

    By Elizabeth Goitein

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