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WEBIn The News. Military.com. September 30, 2024. Marines Surpass Enlisted Recruitment Goal by 1, Officers over a Dozen in Sharp Drop from 2023. Despite the diminished numbers, the service did indeed exceed its goals, and according to Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think ...
Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
WEBMar 31, 2020 · It has been five years since the ban on women in combat was lifted in 2015 and women began integrating previously closed combat arms billets in January 2016. Five years is the length of a service academy contract and longer than the average enlistment contract. Two years ago, there was mostly good news …
Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat | Center for a New …
WEBOct 31, 2023 · Introduction. 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 ...
The Department of Homeland Security: Priorities for Reform
WEBMar 11, 2021 · With respect to legislative proposals, Congress should create additional Senate-confirmable leadership positions at DHS. In the DHS Reform Act of 2020, 3 a piece of legislation introduced in October, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson proposed creating a statutory associate deputy secretary. This recommendation is consistent with recommendations made by the two major ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2022 Year in Review | Center for a New …
WEBAug 3, 2023 · Russia Sanctions. Most country-specific sanctions in 2022 target Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. This paper provides a brief overview of the sanctions packages; a more detailed accounting of the sanctions through May 11, 2022, is available in prior CNAS analysis, “Sanctions by the Numbers: Economic Measures against Russia Following Its 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.”
Sanctions by the Numbers: Transnational Crime and Drug …
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Colombia and Mexico. Colombia (670) and Mexico (666) continue to serve as epicenters for drug trafficking into the United States and account for roughly 60 percent of total transnational crime–related designations (2,155). In both countries, Washington has implemented counternarcotics sanctions in close coordination with local governments—the U.S. embassies in Bogotá and Mexico City host ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: U.S. Sanctions Designations and
WEBFeb 27, 2020 · The United States uses financial sanctions as a prominent tool of foreign policy. While this tool is used with increasing frequency and popularity, there is relatively limited publicly available information measuring the instances of U.S. sanctions designations and delistings.
India-China Border Tensions and U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
WEBMar 30, 2023 · The increased prospect of India-China border hostility has implications for the United States and its Indo-Pacific strategy. Washington has a strategic interest in what happens between India and China—two nuclear-armed nations whose populations together will soon total 3 billion.
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2020 Year in Review | Center for a New …
WEBJan 14, 2021 · Sanctions designations remained high in 2020, with 777 designations compared to 785 in 2019. Iran was by far the most prominent target of U.S. sanctions in 2020, with 43 percent of designations targeting Iran-linked individuals and entities—a significant increase from 2019 when Iran-related designations were …
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review | Center for a New …
WEBJan 13, 2022 · Belarus (100) The Treasury created Belarus-related sanctioning authorities in 2006 under President George W. Bush’s administration to address political repression in the country. The Biden administration expanded these authorities to address the long-standing human rights abuses stemming from the fraudulent 2020 Belarusian presidential election. In 2021, the Treasury imposed a total of 100 ...