Tag: Intel

Recruits who make it into the U.S. Army despite low-level histories of marijuana use perform no worse, overall, than other soldiers. That should be welcome news in recruiting offices nationwide. More than half of all new recruits come from states where marijuana is now legal, at least for medicinal use. The Army’s rules have not… Continue reading Army Enlistment Waivers in the Age of Legal Marijuana

America’s withdrawal and the Taliban’s swift return to power in Afghanistan could be a primary force in shaping the trajectory of the continuing armed struggle with Pakistan’s Taliban, which appears to have surged in the last two years. These new circumstances suggest it may be time for the government of Pakistan to consider whether or… Continue reading Negotiating with TTP—A Different Perspective

This week, we discuss a new framework to measure human potential; RAND CEO and president Michael Rich’s plan to retire; what factors are associated with prescription drug shortages; Army enlistment waivers in the age of legal marijuana; when and how quantum technologies might be used; and the legal barriers to supervised drug consumption sites. Photo… Continue reading ‘GDP2,’ RAND President and CEO to Retire, Quantum Technology: RAND Weekly Recap

This week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was looking to move forward on the Freedom to Vote Act. However, the bill will not come up for a vote after Republicans filibustered it Wednesday, and given the 60-vote threshold needed for the Senate to overcome that maneuver. This has enraged many Democrats as they see time… Continue reading The Framers Likely Would’ve Flunked the Filibuster

A labor shortage like the one the United States is experiencing invariably leads to some bad-mouthing of the workers still on the sidelines: They would rather be on unemployment. They don’t have the right skills. They can’t pass drug tests. One group, however, escapes this opprobrium: married mothers. Few business owners or politicians would go… Continue reading Married Moms Aren’t Striking Workers, but They Are Saying the Same Thing

BriGette McCoy paused to steady her breath. She had spent years hiding the scars of what happened to her in the U.S. Army. Her own family members didn’t know about the groping, the leering jokes, the two rapes she survived before she turned 20. But someone had to put a face on the problem, and… Continue reading Preventing Sexual Violence in the Military

A dozen or so years ago, I took temporary leave from Georgetown University and moved to Iraq for two years to preside over The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani. Some of the young men and women enrolled in our fledgling university carried the double burden of having survived both the American invasion and the Kurdish Civil War… Continue reading Equality In Servitude: From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism

When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he pledged to shift his country’s foreign policy away from the United States—a longstanding treaty ally—in favor of China and Russia. On his first trip to Beijing that year, Duterte tried to butter up his hosts by proclaiming that it was “time to say goodbye to… Continue reading Duterte’s Dalliance with China Is Over

In late August 2017, millions of people in northern Japan got a startling, early morning text message. “Missile alert,” it read, before telling people to take cover. North Korea had launched a ballistic missile, which flew over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido before landing in the sea. Two weeks later, North Korea fired another missile… Continue reading Japan’s Potential Acquisition of Ground-Launched Land-Attack Missiles: Implications for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance