Reports

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  • July 24, 2017
  Improving Federal Health and Benefits Programs to Support Seriously Wounded, Ill and Injured Veterans

  Over 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

• Reports
  • June 15, 2017
  Lost in Translation

  Both 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 Kidder & Moira Fagan

• Reports
  • April 26, 2017
  A Continuum of Collaboration

  At 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 Kidder

• Reports
  • April 5, 2017
  From College to Cabinet

  On 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 Kidder, Amy Schafer, Phillip Carter & Andrew Swick

• Reports
  • March 28, 2017
  AVF 4.0: The Future of the All-Volunteer Force

  The 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 Kidder, Amy Schafer & Andrew Swick

• Reports
  • November 10, 2016
  Onward and Upward

  With 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 Kidder, Amy Schafer & Andrew Swick

• Reports
  • March 29, 2016
  Needs Assessment

  An 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 Kidder & Amy Schafer

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  • December 9, 2015
  Charting the Sea of Goodwill

  Report 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 Kidder & Phillip Carter

• • Reports
  • November 17, 2015
  CNAS Needs Assessment: Veterans in Southwest Pennsylvania

  Senior 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 Kidder & Phillip Carter

• Reports
  • November 10, 2015
  Passing the Baton

  As 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 Kidder & Phillip Carter

• • Reports
  • February 3, 2015
  Ideas to Action: Suggestions for the 25th Secretary of Defense

  In advance of Dr. Ashton Carter’s upcoming nomination hearing to be Secretary of Defense, CNAS experts have produced a series of commentaries outlining the key issues the 25th...

  By Michèle Flournoy, Shawn Brimley, Ilan Goldenberg, Elbridge Colby, Nicholas Heras, Alexander Sullivan, Jacob Stokes, Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Paul Scharre, Van Jackson, Jerry Hendrix, Julianne Smith, Phillip Carter & Katherine Kidder

• • Reports
  • January 27, 2015
  Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization: A Primer

  Phillip Carter and Katherine Kidder examine the growth of military compensation in the post-Cold War era, from 1990 to 2015, as well as the social contract America has with it...

  By Katherine Kidder & Phillip Carter

• • Reports
  • December 13, 2013
  Needs Assessment

  Senior Fellow Phillip Carter and Research Associate Katherine Kidder have released a study that examines the struggles that some veterans are confronting in adjusting  to civi...

  By Katherine Kidder & Phillip Carter

• • Reports
  • November 11, 2013
  Expanding the Net: Building Mental Health Care Capacity for Veterans

  Although the VA will spend nearly $7 billion this year on mental health care for veterans, CNAS Senior Fellow Phillip Carter argues in Expanding the Net: Building Mental Healt...

  By Phillip Carter

• • Reports
  • August 28, 2013
  International Law Constrains U.S. Action in Syria

  Two basic legal principles animate our current international system: states are sovereign, and they shall not, generally speaking, attack each other. . . . As the U.S. weighs ...

  By Phillip Carter

• • Reports
  • August 28, 2013
  CNAS Commentaries: The Way Forward in Syria

  Nine experts at the Center for a New American Security offer analysis and commentary on the range of issues relating to the U.S. response to the alleged use of chemical weapon...

  By Gordon Miller, Katherine Kidder, Nora Bensahel, Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Phillip Carter, Richard Fontaine, Richard Williamson, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)

• • Reports
  • November 9, 2012
  Upholding the Promise: Supporting Veterans and Military Personnel in the Next Four Years

  In Upholding the Promise: Supporting Veterans and Military Personnel in the Next Four Years, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Phillip Carter urges the Obama Administration to d...

  By Phillip Carter