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Foreign Militaries Assessing the Implications of Possible Changes to Women in Service Restrictions

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CNA analysts review the policies and practices of four foreign militaries and two physically demanding profession to learn the effects of gender integration on organizational dynamics.

review of restrictions to women’s service in certain military occupations and assignments, the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps asked CNA to examine the practices of foreign militaries ... in the attached arms (as supporting personnel, such as medics, clerks, and logisticians) for units that engage in ground close combat in the British Army and Royal Marines at the battalion level and below. In Canada, which allows women to serve in all military occupations and units, women make up only 2 percent of the combat arms occupations, and no woman has served in the elite Joint Task Force 2

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 10, March 10, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 10, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

by human operators—automatically executing attacks. PLA brigade employs smart technology to assist with equipment repairs.   According to   China Military Online   , the PLA’s official news and information portal, an unidentified brigade of the 75th Group Army is incorporating intelligent technology into its maintenance operations. Personnel from the 75th Group Army built a database ... website releases videos of “blue force” UAVs, highlighting challenges and technological capabilities they may anticipate from enemy forces.   China Military Video Net, which is part of the PLA’s News

OSD Retention Dashboard

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The services commit a considerable amount of resources to retention policy levers, including a variety of reenlistment bonuses for both officers and enlisted personnel. To oversee the resources supporting these levers, the services must understand the current retention environment, both in aggregate and for specific subsets of servicemembers, since retention incentives can target certain communities. This paper discusses the retention dashboard that CNA developed for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (OSD) Personnel and Readiness (P&R) that allows users to view recent active component enlisted retention trends in each of the services. We discuss our choice of retention metrics, identify the data that we used, and provide guidance on using the dashboard. We conclude with a discussion of a potential future extension of the dashboard that incorporates predictive capabilities. Future extensions also could add the reserve component and/or the officer corps.

OSD Retention Dashboard Creating an OSD Retention Dashboard The services commit a considerable amount of resources to retention policy levers, including a variety of reenlistment bonuses for both officers and enlisted personnel. To oversee the resources supporting these levers, the services must understand the current retention environment, both in aggregate and for specific subsets of servicemembers, since retention incentives can target certain communities. This paper discusses the retention dashboard that CNA developed for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (OSD) Personnel

Differences in Male and Female Predictors of Success in the Marine Corps

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CNA analysts conducted a review of literature on predictors of male and female Marine performance over the last 25 years, examining the impact of previous female integration as well as future trend analysis.

of female integration into previously closed Military Occupational Specialties (MOSs) and units, the Marine Corps Force Innovation Office asked CNA to support the Marine Corps Recruiting Command’s ... , separately for men and women. We reviewed the past 25 years of work on Marine performance for enlisted personnel and the officer corps, which will inform our work examining past gender integration as well ... Marine markets, and (3) analysis of whether the demographics and quality of female enlistees will change over time with the lifting of the combat exclusion policy. Shannon Desrosiers Elizabeth Bradley

Future Deployable Medical Capabilities and Platforms

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All three medical services (Army, Air Force, and Navy) are working to develop smaller, more mobile medical platforms and capabilities. This document is intended to help Navy Medicine plan its future deployable capabilities by (a) suggesting alternative platforms, (b) analyzing the positives and negatives of those platforms, (c) suggesting other pertinent issues to be addressed in considering alternatives, providing analytical input into Navy Medicine’s new requirement-setting process, and (e) supplying preliminary analyses of capabilities and rough cost estimates. The capability/engineering and cost estimates that we make in this study are preliminary. This document is an early step in a process that would require more detailed engineering and cost studies of particular options.

is an early step in a process that would require more detailed engineering and cost studies of particular options. The Director, Medical Resources, Plans, and Policy (N-931) asked CNA to analyze ... the medical needs of the personnel on the ground. It arrives simulta- neously with CINC-delivered supplies that can sustain it for up to 60 days. Each of the 10 fleet hospitals worldwide has 6 operating ... warfare, and military operations other than war. Changes in Navy/Marine Corps warfighting concepts that require the Marines to be supported by sea-based logistics. In addition, the Navy and Marine

Three Questions, Ep. 04: Warren Sutton

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Warren Sutton has been an analyst at CNA for 10+ years, working on a variety of manpower and personnel issues. Warren has worked extensively with Navy enlisted community managers in building decision support tools to understand impacts of Navy policy on projected community inventories. Over the years, he has established an expertise in optimization and simulation tools for practical military decision-making. Warren was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Washington University. He completed his graduate education at the University of Michigan in the Industrial & Operations Engineering department and his undergraduate education at the University of Pittsburgh.

Three Questions, Ep. 04: Warren Sutton Warren Sutton has been an analyst at CNA for 10+ years, working on a variety of manpower and personnel issues. Warren has worked extensively with Navy enlisted community managers in building decision support tools to understand impacts of Navy policy on projected community inventories. Over the years, he has established an expertise in optimization and simulation tools for practical military decision-making. Warren was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Washington University. He completed his graduate education at the University

Great Power Competition in the Indian Ocean

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U.S. Navy planners should assume that the PLA Navy’s presence in the western Indian Ocean will grow, and that new bases and places will be organized to support its expanded presence. U.S. authorities can no longer assume unencumbered freedom of action when electing to posture U.S. naval forces offshore of the Horn of Africa and other East African hotspots. If China’s interests are involved and differ from Washington’s, the Chinese could dispatch their own naval forces to the water offshore of the country in question. The U.S. Navy faced similar circumstances between 1968 and 1991, when the United States and the Soviet Union competed for friends, political influence, maritime access, and bases in the western Indian Ocean region. This paper briefly discusses this period in order to provide some historical context for what might occur in the future. As Mark Twain purportedly quipped, “History does not repeat, but it often rhymes.”

paper, entitled China’s Military Strategy, stated: With the growth of China’s national interests…the security of overseas interests concerning energy and resources, strategic sea lines of communication (SLOCs), as well as institutions, personnel and assets abroad, has become an imminent issue … Over the years, official Beijing angst regarding this issue has led to a great deal of scholarly ... Road, it was necessary for Beijing to back away from its long-standing policy of criticizing other nations’ overseas bases as a feature of hegemonic behavior. Beijing has come to appreciate the value

Maternity Leave: More Weeks for Mothers Can Mean More Weeks Worked

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Longer paid maternity leave in the Navy increased the number of female sailors who reenlist, reducing what had been a small but persistent gender gap in reenlistment rates in a cost-effective manner.

the policy’s effect, we used a difference-in-differences model. The model compares reenlistment rates of female sailors with those of male sailors without military spouses — who do not benefit, even ... of the Navy to eventually scale back their leave to 12 weeks in order to create a consistent policy across the services, the large increase in maternity leave created a quasi-experiment on the impact of maternity leave on personnel. As part of a suite of studies on the effect of personnel policies on budgets and personnel inventories, sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, we estimated

New Roles for Civil Affairs Forces in a New World

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Strategic competition should prompt us to think about new and creative uses for civil affairs forces.

extensively with local institutions and personnel to help restore order to civil society, rebuild, and grow lasting relationships with civil actors. Today, however, the military is contending ... objectives and may include “security cooperation activities, multinational training and exercises, information sharing, personnel exchange programs and other peaceful military engagement activities ... governments, civil aviation authorities and port authorities in support of military training exercises. These events often require coordination with civilian government personnel to ensure that the activities

Protecting Civilians in Gaza Requires Not Just a Will, but a Way

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The U.S. can help Israel reduce civilian casualties in Gaza with advice on civilian harm mitigation in military operations, using lessons from Iraq, etc.

during operations. As part of a CNA study on military partnerships in learning, I visited Israel last year for discussions with Israeli Defense Forces officers and staff. Their personnel told me ... Protecting Civilians in Gaza The U.S. can help Israel reduce civilian casualties in Gaza with advice on civilian harm mitigation in military operations, using lessons from Iraq, etc. /images ... wanting to protect civilians does not help a military achieve that goal. Rather, civilian protection requires specific capabilities and processes, incorporated into an adaptive, learning approach