The last 24 hours have raised questions and attention about the Secretary of Defense's role in General Officer promotions.

In earlier work with @klkuzminski.bsky.social we showed that older recruits were promoted more quickly and re-enlisted at higher rates than recruits under 20. This change brings the Army's age requirements more in line with other branches of the military. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

warontherocks.com/2026/03/mili... @bradduplessis.bsky.social bringing some damn sense #RealPME

Terrific new roundtable review for the H-Diplo Jervis Forum on Mara Karlin's outstanding book, The Inheritance. An all-star lineup of reviewers in Peter Feaver, @klkuzminski.bsky.social, @profjessblankshain.bsky.social, and Paula Thornhill! Read closely and in full! issforum.org/roundtables/...

Super excited that a new edited volume, Bend But Do Not Break, is coming out, edited by Jaron Wharton, @klkuzminski.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social @mzmargulies.bsky.social Keith Carter, and @carriealee.bsky.social And it’s apparently doing well on the amazons

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Since the Russian invasion, the security services of Russia and Ukraine "have discovered a cheap and accessible asset — youngsters who can be recruited for one-off covert attacks," Lilia Yapparova, an investigative reporter, writes in a guest essay.

Scoop: The Army is implementing a gender neutral fitness test for combat arms in June www.military.com/daily-news/2...

The recovery, which took a week and hundreds of personnel, was punctuated by fuel leaks and engineering setbacks. It ended when an Estonian dog team smelled faint traces of the fourth soldier still in the bog. The fuller story: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The mission to recover 4 U.S. soldiers from a Lithuanian bog was more complex and dangerous that you know. Navy divers could barely breathe in the thick mud, struggling to move as if it were drying concrete. They couldn't see anything and did their work entirely by touch.

NEW: CNAS launches National Security Human Capital (NSHC) Program, a major research program led by @klkuzminski.bsky.social focused on strengthening the United States’ most critical defense asset: its people. www.cnas.org/press/press-...

Army Reverses Course and Resumes Remote Entrance Exam Testing After Cutting Off Funding

Important new @foreignaffairs.com piece from @cnas.bsky.social’s Defense Program Director @spettyjohn.bsky.social: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A vital piece in @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/roug...

New and important from @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social in @lawfare.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

From @klkuzminski.bsky.social: "Tackle the Military Recruiting Crisis" www.cnas.org/publications...

Dig into the full volume here: www.cnas.org/publications... Featuring stellar contributions from @rhfontaine.bsky.social, @klkuzminski.bsky.social, @beccawasser.bsky.social, @vivekchil.bsky.social, and @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social, along with other incisive colleagues without bsky accounts.

Always fun to join @jkdemp.bsky.social for a conversation on @warontherocks.bsky.social Soldier Pulse podcast; this time, we’re talking officer promotions. How does it *actually* work? What’s the deal with generals? Can a president just fire a G/O?: warontherocks.com/episode/sold...

Seven years. You would love the new office. You’d be proud of what we’ve continued to build. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Excited to close out the year with the inclusion of my piece with @klkuzminski.bsky.social among the most read War on the Rocks articles of 2024! Honored to be among such prodigious authors warontherocks.com/2024/12/most...

New @warontherocks.bsky.social piece from LTG David Barno and Dr. Nora Bensahel featuring analysis from @tcdsylvester.bsky.social + my recent @cnas.bsky.social report, "Back to the Drafting Board": warontherocks.com/2024/12/amer...

NEW @defenseone.bsky.social OpEd from @cnas.bsky.social's @tcdsylvester.bsky.social and Kareen Hart: "To Improve Recruiting, Make Medical Standards Match Retention Ones" www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/1...

Fabulous profile. www.nytimes.com/athletic/593...

I appreciated the opportunity to join Vox’s Today, Explained to discuss what the nominee for Secretary of Defense signals about future DoD policy and Civ-Mil norms. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Great to sit with @gregjaffe.bsky.social of WaPo and Kate Kuzminski to discuss military recruiting challenges.

Few better experiences than getting to discuss the state of military recruitment with @jkdemp.bsky.social + @gregjaffe.bsky.social on @warontherocks.bsky.social Soldier Pulse: warontherocks.com/episode/sold...