Today, GEN George & I testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on how the U.S. Army is transforming our capabilities, our force structure, & our recruiting enterprise. This ensures the Army is ready & able to defeat evolving threats, keep pace with…

'The chances that AUKUS would survive a political transition in the US – just as it survived one in Australia – are very high,' Richard Fontaine tells The Sydney Morning Herald. Read the full story here: cnas.org/press/in-the-n…

Great data visualizations capturing Ukraine's recruitment and conscription challenges. 'It must balance the need to counter a relentless Russian offensive by adding more troops against the risk of hollowing out an entire generation.
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The biggest factor that has driven down recruitment, experts think, is the lack of an existential U.S. national security threat.

“We’re victims of our own success,” said Kate Kuzminski (Kate Kuzminski), director of the military, veterans, and society program at the Center for a…

'This means Japan presently does not have a senior military official to directly engage with Admiral John Aquilino, the USINDOPACOM commander, on a routine basis.' mwi.westpoint.edu/what-japans-mi…

Why do American civilians increasingly defer to the military about national security issues? Ron Krebs and Scott Limbocker Department of Social Sciences at West Point discuss civ-mil relations in a new episode of the Social Science of War podcast👇 mwi.westpoint.edu/social-science…

This chart from Paul Scharre is an underrated point about AI proliferation: training at the frontier gets expensive (line going up), but at any fixed capability level gets cheap (lines going down) due to better software+hardware

(assumes historical scaling rates holds)

Talking AUKUS & Japan on
CNBC. Check it out 👇

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Not every Soldier joins the Army to do 20 years and retire and that is ok. What is not ok is treating Soldiers who are in the process of getting out poorly, simply because they are getting out.

every person who serves, whether for 2 years or 20, has given our country their time,…

Read HadeiaAMIRY 🌍 and Lisa Curtis on the Taliban’s extreme policies against women, such as the edicts banning women’s education and restricting their access to health care—and what the United States can do to support the women of Afghanistan:
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One of the more interesting The Washington Post stories I’ve ever been cited in:

The latest CNAS episode of Brussels Sprouts tackles France’s approach to Moscow, w/ Andrea Kendall-Taylor Jim Townsend and Tara_Varma

To hold history in your hands! This #NATONerd had the honor of a lifetime to see the Washington Treaty – the founding document of NATO. The Treaty was signed in Washington D.C. by 12 founding members, and today it traveled from the United States to Brussels to commemorate NATO’s…

'A cadet's journey through West Point starts and ends with the Constitution, and in the middle is the American Politics program to educate them on the meaning of the oath' - SOSH's Lee Robinson and Joseph Amoroso. The Conversation U.S. West Point Dean theconversation.com/military-perso…

Today marks 75 years since the founding of #NATO —the strongest & most successful alliance in history. Foreign Ministers met to address #Ukraine ’s urgent & long-term needs; we must step up even more. We also discussed deepening cooperation with our Indo-Pacific partners. 🇦🇺🇯🇵🇳🇿🇰🇷

April is the #MonthoftheMilitaryChild ! Join me as we #PurpleUp on April 8th to celebrate the incredible children in our U.S. Army families and recognize them for always being 'Brave, Fearless, & Resilient! 🇺🇸 💪

Are you a project manager with editorial chops who cares about national security? Apply to be our production editor -- a new position War on the Rocks

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A couple of news outlets were interested in how we teach cadets about their oath to the Constitution, so Joseph Amoroso and I thought we should share how we do this! Department of Social Sciences at West Point

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New from Department of Social Sciences at West Point
Military personnel swear allegiance to the Constitution and serve the American people – not one leader or party theconversation.com/military-perso… via The Conversation U.S.

If you were struck by Kurt Campbell's comments on the security architecture in the Indo-Pacific and wondered what 'operationalizing' networks of allies and partners in Asia looks like, I've got you covered: ussc.edu.au/networked-dete…