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Should women be drafted? Congress weighs the question yet again
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Kate Kuzminski, director of the Center for New American Security’s program on Military, Veterans & Society said various members of Congress has attempted to add women to t...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Army's Recruiting Problem Is Male
The alarming trends for men's economic role and health have also been weaponized in dark, misogynistic corners of the internet -- sometimes referred to as the "manosphere," wh...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Congress is weighing automatic registration for wartime draft
Kate Kuzminski, deputy director of the Washington D.C. think tank, Center for New American Security’s program on Military, Veterans & Society said the measure could be sim...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Air Force General in Charge of Special Operations Command Nominated to Head Service Academy
While Bauernfeind's tenure at AFSOC has been less than the typical two years, it's not uncommon for the Air Force to move around its limited number of three-star generals into...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Losing a Foot Never Held Her Back, Until She Tried to Join the Military
The military personnel bureaucracy is risk-averse, and no one wants to be the first to let an amputee in, said Katherine Kuzminski, who studies the military and society at the...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Army on track to meet lower recruiting goal, Navy may fall short
The Army’s decision to lower its recruiting goal comes as the service is undergoing a massive force structure transformation, under which the total size of the force is expect...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Supreme Court sides with Army veteran in overlapping GI Bill benefits case
Kate Kuzminski, director of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington D.C. think tank’s military program said the number of impacted veterans may be smaller than th...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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NATO Doesn’t Have Enough Troops
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 ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015
The Sheehy campaign did not respond to the ranger’s contention that he inspected the weapon or saw a missing bullet but noted the ranger did not mention a missing bullet in hi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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New analysis of Air Force suicides explores contributing factors
Katherine Kuzminski, a military personnel expert at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security, said the report reflects greater emphasis by the Pentagon and serv...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Navy demoted Ronny Jackson after probe into White House behavior
After publication of this story, the Navy provided Jackson’s service record, which shows the rank of captain retroactively applied to the date of his retirement in December 20...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Inside the Navy’s quest to fix its recruiting crisis
Looking ahead 20 to 40 years, who the Navy does or doesn’t recruit today will impact the future fleet, according to Katherine Kuzminski, director of the Military, Veterans, an...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The Air Force's First Female Enlisted Leader Broke the 'Brass Ceiling.' Here’s Her View on Retirement.
Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture, told Military.com that Bass, in many ways, was absol...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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DoD updates telework policy for the first time since 2012
“I do think that the document foresees some of these cultural challenges. We want to set up the value proposition for why this might work really well for your office. But it’s...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Military bases below negative-20 degrees will soon get a bonus pay
“It is quite possible that it is a recognition that it’s uncomfortable to be living in a cold climate. But there’s part of me that thinks it’s more tied to the remoteness than...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Marine Infantry veteran says enlisted shouldn’t become officers — mayhem ensues
However, there are advantages to allowing enlisted service members to become officers, said Katherine Kuzminski, director of the military, veterans, and society program at the...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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US Army Wants Relieved Anti-Vaccine Soldiers Back as Recruitment Woes Loom
The US Army wants to re-enlist soldiers who were discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccines as the service grapples with increasing recruitment challenges. According to a repor...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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In war for talent, Army’s new direct commissions an admin ‘disaster’
Personnel expert Kate Kuzminski, who heads the Military, Veterans and Society branch of the Center for a New American Security think tank, emphasized how important it will be ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force Struggle for Recruits. The Marines Have Plenty.
Katherine Kuzminski, who studies military personnel issues at the Center for New American Security, said that the Marine Corps’ tough and coyly negging message — broadcast thr...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Big Bonuses, Relaxed Policies, New Slogan: None of It Saved the Military from a Recruiting Crisis in 2023
While some of those problems still linger and had an effect on numbers in the past fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, experts told Military.com that long-standing issues rangi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski