Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
Mar 31, 2020 · Army. The percentage of women in the Army has grown incrementally in recent years to 19 percent of officers in 2018 from 17.7 percent in 2013; 9.6 percent warrant officers in 2018 from 9.5 percent in 2013; and 14.4 percent of enlisted ranks in 2018 from 13 percent in 2013. Soldier 2020, the Army’s gender integration plan, wraps up this year ...
Terrible But Justified: The U.S. A-Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima and …
Sep 29, 2015 · The March 1945 air assault on Tokyo, for instance, is thought to have killed nearly 100,000 people, more than those lost in either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki attacks. So harsh was this campaign that one of its architects, 20th Air Force commander General Curtis Lemay, remarked that he expected to be treated as a war criminal if Japan prevailed.
A Tale of Two Strategies: Comparing the Biden and Trump …
Nov 4, 2022 · In many respects, Biden’s NSS of 2022 was written in a much different world than that of Trump’s NSS of 2017. One stark example is the U.S. relationship with Russia—the Biden administration delayed the release of its NSS in February, citing the likelihood of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read the full story and more from Lawfare.
Improving Joint Operational Concept Development within the U.S …
Oct 21, 2021 · The paper makes the following recommendations to improve the joint concept development process: Focus joint concept development on priority challenges in a future operational environment. Empower the combatant commands to drive joint concept development. Explore alternative visions of future war and validate joint concepts through extensive ...
Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat | CNAS
Oct 31, 2023 · Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 reignited concerns about Moscow’s vast nuclear arsenal and the conditions under which the Kremlin might be willing to use these weapons. Moscow has gone to great lengths to stoke such concerns. At the start of the war, the Russian president publicly asked military leadership to place ...
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Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China. Executive Summary The Biden administration has exceeded the Trump administration in the number of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls placed on Chinese person...
The (Mostly) Good News on Women in Combat - CNAS
October 2015 – Major Lisa Jaster becomes the third woman to graduate from Ranger School. December 2015 – Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announces that all military occupations will open to women, following the completion of assessments by the military services. April 2016 – Captain Griest becomes the first female Army infantry officer.
War Powers: What Are They Good For? - CNAS
Dec 9, 2020 · The 1973 War Powers Resolution, introduced in the wake of President Richard Nixon’s secret bombings of Cambodia, was meant to formalize a sequence of executive-legislative consultation, notification, authorization, and termination when placing U.S. forces in “hostilities.” 4 The text of the resolution attempted to acknowledge the …
Defense - CNAS
Oct 15, 2014 · Over the past 15 years, CNAS has shaped U.S. defense strategy and policy. Today, the United States must swiftly implement its defense strategy, develop innovative operational concepts, and undertake difficult institutional reforms to both meet the long-term challenges posed by great powers and short-term crises created by a …
Sanctions by the Numbers: U.S. Sanctions Designations and
Feb 27, 2020 · Sanctions Programs in 2009 and 2019. Burma includes all entities sanctioned pursuant to Executive Orders 13619 and 13651. Counternarcotics includes all entities sanctioned pursuant to EO 12978 and the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. North Korea includes all entities sanctioned pursuant to EOs 13687, 13722, and 13810.