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Navy fires CO of Transaction Service Center Great Lakes
The Navy relieved Cmdr. Steven Green “due to a loss of confidence” in his ability to lead.
By Diana Stancy
New background investigation initiative will include everyone by end of 2023
The Trusted Workforce 2.0 program will rely on continuously vetting recipients of security clearances, rather than formal reinvestigations.
By Jessie Bur
DoD has a blind spot for civilian employee sexual assaults
Department of Defense components do not uniformly report civilian sexual harassment and assault, leading to an incomplete understanding of the problem and its potential solutions.
By Jessie Bur
McMaster: Strategic competitors probably view the US as ‘weak’
McMaster’s comments come as he is promoting his new book, "Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World” that was released this month.
By Diana Stancy
Proposed law would eliminate benefits deduction for military retirees with combat-related injuries or illnesses
The Major Richard Star Act aims to eliminate a benefits "offset" which deducts military retiree pay by the amount of VA disability compensation.
By Dylan Gresik
Book by H.R. McMaster, Trump’s 2nd national security adviser, out in April
A book by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump’s second national security adviser, will have a book out April 28. First announced in the summer of 2018, “Battlegrounds” will focus on national security and foreign policy, including his contentious time with Trump.
H.R. McMaster says the public is fed a ‘war-weariness’ narrative that hurts US strategy
“A young student stood up and said ‘all I’ve known my whole life is war,’” McMaster said. “Now, he’s never been to war, but he’s been subjected, I think, to this narrative of war-weariness.”
By Kyle Rempfer
Pompeo to visit North Korea next week, with Ford exec as envoy
Stephen Biegun is to handle negotiations with North Korea over dismantling its nuclear weapons program.
H.R. McMaster book scheduled for 2020
H.R. McMaster, the lieutenant general who endured a troubled year as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has a book deal.
Trump pressed aides on Venezuela invasion, US official says
As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can’t the U.S. just simply invade the troubled country?
McMaster, former Trump NSC head, lands at Stanford
The now-retired McMaster heads to California.
By Andrew C. Jarocki