Reports
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National Security Human Capital Program
Funding Flows in the Sea of GoodwillIntroduction Analyzing the largest organizations in the veteran philanthropy space through publicly available tax filings and annual reports, this paper identifies: (1) the do...
By Emma Moore, Margaret Seymour, Jared Stefani, Kelly Kennedy & Kayla M. Williams
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National Security Human Capital Program
Changing Tides in the Sea of Goodwill: A Financial Analysis of Veteran-Serving NonprofitsAs the United States enters its 18th year of war since 9/11, the shape of the country’s veteran community is rapidly transforming. The total number of American veterans is shr...
By Douglas McCormick, Emma Moore & Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital Program
Leveraging ROTC to Span the Civil-Military GapIntroduction and Executive Summary For just over 100 years, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) has stood at the intersection of the military and American society, ser...
By Emma Moore & Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The (Mostly) Good News on Women in CombatThree years ago this month, 19 women from across the Army made history by reporting to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become the first women to attend U.S. Army Ranger School. As t...
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
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National Security Human Capital Program
Needs AssessmentExecutive Summary The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that there are 21.6 million veterans living in the United States, making up 6.7 percent of the general popu...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Amy Schafer, Phillip Carter, Moira Fagan, Jeesue Lee & Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital Program
Improving Federal Health and Benefits Programs to Support Seriously Wounded, Ill and Injured VeteransOver the past several decades, a fragmented array of government programs has emerged to provide health care or health insurance for Americans. Several of these programs serve...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Lost in TranslationBoth employers and veterans benefit from the recent spotlight on the business case for hiring veterans. There is a great opportunity for business to leverage the training and ...
By Phillip Carter, Amy Schafer, Katherine L. Kuzminski & Moira Fagan
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National Security Human Capital Program
Generations of WarPreface By Dr. Janine A. Davidson Though the American experiment of an all-volunteer military force is largely considered to be a success, maintaining long-term awareness of c...
By Amy Schafer
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National Security Human Capital Program
A Continuum of CollaborationAt the federal level, an enormous structure exists to serve veterans, a structure composed of the mammoth Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) and other cabin...
By Phillip Carter & Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
From College to CabinetOn January 20, 2017, a new administration took the helm in the United States. The new president faces a vast set of threats to U.S. national security, including potential chal...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski, Amy Schafer, Phillip Carter & Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital Program
AVF 4.0: The Future of the All-Volunteer ForceThe U.S. armed forces are not made up of people; the U.S. armed forces are people.1 Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen constitute the beating heart of the...
By Phillip Carter, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Amy Schafer & Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital Program
Onward and UpwardWith more than 11 million veterans in the workforce and approximately 175,000 service members discharged each year from active service, the overall economic performance of vet...
By Phillip Carter, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Amy Schafer & Andrew Swick
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National Security Human Capital Program
Needs AssessmentAn assessment by the CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program finds that Dallas-Fort Worth area veterans face diverse challenges including access to VA services, economics...
By Phillip Carter, Katherine L. Kuzminski & Amy Schafer
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Nine Lessons for Navigating National SecurityFew periods in modern world history have been as complicated and tumultuous as the one the next U.S. administration will confront. A long list of international problems will c...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
The Labyrinth WithinThe current austere fiscal environment has brought the debate over the defense budget to the forefront of policymakers’ agendas. Technical terminology once deemed irrelevant f...
By Michelle Shevin-Coetzee
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National Security Human Capital Program
Charting the Sea of GoodwillReport conducts a comprehensive landscape analysis of the military and veteran-service organization space and its funding sources, and finds that while the support needed by m...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program
CNAS Needs AssessmentSenior Fellow Phillip Carter and Bacevich Fellow Katherine Kidder author a study on Southwest Pennsylvania's veterans community, drawing upon data from the Department of Defen...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital Program
Passing the BatonAs the 2016 election cycle moves into full swing, four CNAS experts lay out a comprehensive overview of issues facing the veteran and military community and a plan with substa...
By Amy Schafer, Dr. Jason Dempsey, Katherine L. Kuzminski & Phillip Carter
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
A Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2030Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby offers the outlines of a revised nuclear policy and posture that adapts the United States' long-standing approach to nuclear weapo...
By Elbridge Colby
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Iran’s Economic Reintegration: Sanctions Relief, Energy, and Economic Growth Under a Nuclear Agreement with IranSenior Fellow Elizabeth Rosenberg and Dr. Sara Vakhshouri, president of SVB Energy International, LLC, lay out how the removal of international sanctions on Iran is likely to ...
By Dr. Sara Vakhshouri & Elizabeth Rosenberg