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Nov 22, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Kathleen J. McInnis |Kyleanne Hunter
Georgians are in the streets fighting for their democracy. The Georgian Dream party, which is working to align Tbilisi with Moscow’s interests, declared victory in the country’s Oct. 26 election before the votes were even counted. Voters and election observers were harassed by Russian-funded gangs and mobsters; just after the election, protesters holding European Union flags were sprayed with water from high-powered hoses.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
rand.org | Kathleen J. McInnis |Kyleanne Hunter
Georgians are in the streets fighting for their democracy. The Georgian Dream party, which is working to align Tbilisi with Moscow's interests, declared victory in the country's Oct. 26 election before the votes were even counted. Voters and election observers were harassed by Russian-funded gangs and mobsters; just after the election, protesters holding European Union flags were sprayed with water from high-powered hoses.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Kathleen J. McInnis |Kyleanne Hunter
Argument An expert's point of view on a current event. Supporters of Georgia's opposition protest the recent parliamentary elections in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Nov. 17.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
rand.org | Jackie Burns |Kyleanne Hunter |Joslyn Fleming |Grace Falgoust
Topics Availability: Web-Only Year: 2024 Pages: 32DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/PEA2905-1 Document Number: PE-A2905-1 RAND Style Manual Hunter, Kyleanne M., Joslyn Fleming, Jackie L. Burns, and Grace Falgoust, Enabling Human Security from Space: Using Space Force Capabilities to Better Humanity, RAND Corporation, PE-A2905-1, September 2024. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2905-1.html Chicago Manual of Style Hunter, Kyleanne M., Joslyn Fleming, Jackie L.
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Sep 10, 2024 | rand.org | Jackie Burns |Kyleanne Hunter |Joslyn Fleming |Grace Falgoust
Topics Availability: Web-Only Year: 2024 Pages: 32DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/PEA2905-1 Document Number: PE-A2905-1 RAND Style Manual Hunter, Kyleanne M., Joslyn Fleming, Jackie L. Burns, and Grace Falgoust, Enabling Human Security from Space: Using Space Force Capabilities to Better Humanity, RAND Corporation, PE-A2905-1, September 2024. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2905-1.html Chicago Manual of Style Hunter, Kyleanne M., Joslyn Fleming, Jackie L.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Kyleanne Hunter |Kimberly Adams
Image credit: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force/DoD July 14, 2023 Source: Marketplace Journalist Kimberly Adams “It’s going to open up a long series of deliberations and negotiations that have the potential to really delay this process,” said Kyleanne Hunter, a senior political scientist at the Rand Corp. Ideally, this is supposed to be done by October. But if it’s not, “there won’t be any new innovation, there won’t be any new advancement.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Taren Sylvester |Kyleanne Hunter |Ayla McBreen
Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. switched from a mixed military system, where the military was composed of both volunteers and draftees, to an all-volunteer force. In the intervening decades, the military has become detached from the American public with a proto-warrior class forming of generations of military families who serve.
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Jul 1, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Taren Sylvester |Kyleanne Hunter |Jason Dempsey
Those who joined the American military in July of 1973, and in the five decades since, have been part of what is known as America’s “all-volunteer force,” or AVF. For most Americans, the AVF is something to be celebrated, but foreign to their daily lives. The AVF gave most Americans the freedom to be indifferent to their military, shifting the burden of service to a smaller, self-selected cohort of citizens. Read the full article from The Atlantic.
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May 10, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Kyleanne Hunter |Jason Dempsey |Taren Sylvester
Despite 50 years of an All-Volunteer Force, fear of conscription remains just below the surface as Americans consider the role of the U.S. military and their relationship to it. Today, whispers of conscription ripple across social media whenever it seems that the United States might be drawn into a conflict -- after the 9/11 terrorist attacks; when Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani was assassinated; and following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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May 1, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Kyleanne Hunter |Jason Dempsey |Stewart Latwin |Ayla McBreen
With the 50th anniversary of the United States’ All-Volunteer Force this summer, and the current recruiting crisis potentially impacting force readiness, military personnel policy will determine how the services operate for the next half-century. What are the challenges impacting military recruitment, and how should the various branches and Department of Defense respond? CNAS experts are sharpening the conversation around military personnel policy and the ongoing recruiting crisis.
