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The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) training process is fragmented, sporadic, and inconsistent, which negatively affects national security system (NSS) performance. In the NSS is continued interagency conflict, inhibited power-sharing solutions, and deficient unity of efforts…

Over the past decade of armed conflict in the Middle East, the United States increased its use of Private Security Companies (PSC) to fill capability security voids. The increase in security demands led to expanding PSC contracts to areas abroad that were not tied to the armed c…

Over its approximate fifty year history, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) has been plagued by the issue of inter-service rivalry, often called “servicism.” Ironically, the JCS was designed to prevent this sort of phenomenon by increasing coordination and cooperation among the mil…

The Department of Defense (including the three branches of the military service, i.e. Army, Navy, Air Force) is implementing a new financing structure. The rollout of the "Revised Financing Methodology" to their Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) throughout the Department of D…