Podcast appearances and mentions of lauren fish

Guests:Risa Brooks is the Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.Joseph L. Votel is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and previously served as Commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. Votel is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow here at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and he is also the President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security.International Security Article:This podcast is based on Risa Brooks, “Paradoxes of Professionalism: Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Spring 2020), pp. 7–44.Related Readings:Celeste Ward Gventer, Jessica D. Blankshain, Raphael S. Cohen, Lindsay P. Cohn, Paul Eaton, Lauren Fish, “Policy Roundtable: Civil-Military Relations Now and Tomorrow,” Texas National Security Review, March 27, 2018.Risa Brooks, “What Can Military and Civilian Leaders Do to Prevent the Military’s Politicization,” War on the Rocks, April 27, 2020.Joseph Votel, “An Apolitical Military Is Essential to Maintaining Balance among American Institutions,” Military Times, June 8, 2020.Jim Golby, “America’s Politicized Military Is a Recipe for Disaster,” Foreign Policy, June 18, 2020.Alice Hunt Friend, “A Military Litmus Test? Evaluating the Argument that Civilian Defense Leaders Need Military Experience,” Just Security, August 19, 2020.

This week on the program: • During a flight over Turkmenistan this week, America’s top commander in the Middle East spoke by phone with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baron. Kevin explains (at the 2:07 mark) what Gen. Joseph Votel told him about America’s military involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and more. • Then (30:32) we’ll turn to exosuits and pack robots of the future — many are already available, and they’re only getting better. We’ll hear from Paul Scharre and Lauren Fish about those and other robotic gadgets you just might find on soldiers 20 and 30 years from now. • And we’ll end (49:48) with a conversation on the quieter wars — and sometimes not so quiet ones — going on every day in the chatty spaces of our Facebook and Twitter feeds. P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking — co-authors of a new book about the weaponization of social media called “LikeWar” — join us to talk about radicalization in America, determining fact from falsehood, and whether we humans are even capable of disagreeing more productively in the months to come. —Read the report coauthored in part by Paul and Lauren over at CNAS, here: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/emerging-technologies-1

Injuries to players in the National Football League brought to the public eye the issue of sub-concussive hits. Now the military is concerned about what its weapons are doing to its troops. Its own data shows certain heavy, shoulder-mounted weapons might be giving troops brain injuries, even during training. The Center for a New American Security delved into the numbers. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione spoke to Lauren Fish, the Center's research associate, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

This week, the Bombshell ladies welcome Lauren Fish of the Center for a New American Security to talk all things FY19 defense budget, including why this big funding increase may not be all that it seems.  While finding future employment for Navy SEALs on the skeleton track, we talk North Korea’s charm offensive, how we and maybe everyone else have totally lost the plot in Syria, and why the Munich Security Conference was the party everyone wanted to bail on.  We offer everything you wanted to know about security clearances and deployability (and then everything you didn’t know you wanted to know).  And oh yeah, Erin’s seen Red Sparrow.   Center for New American Security, “The Bottom Line,” CNAS David Wharton, "'Peace Village,' a fake city just outside the DMZ, serves as metaphor for North Korean athletes at the Olympics," LA Times Motoko Rich and Choe Sang-Hun, "Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns On the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight," New York Times Scott Neuman, "'Dozens' Of Russian Mercenaries Reportedly Killed In U.S. Airstrikes In Syria," NPR Isabel Kershner, Anne Barnard, and Eric Schmitt, "Israel Strikes Iran in Syria and Loses a Jet," New York Times J. Dana Stuster, "Israel Strikes Iranian Targets in Syria after Drone Incursion," Lawfare Aaron Mehta, "Mattis: Unclear if Russia directed attack against U.S. allies in Syria," Military Times Eliot A. Cohen, "Witnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite," The Atlantic Henry Meyer and Patrick Donahue, "U.S.-Russia TEnsion Flares Over Nuclear Arms Control Now at Risk," Bloomberg William J. Antholis, "Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too," Politico Tara Copp, "It's official: DoD releases new 'deploy or get out' policy," Military Times Dahlia Lithwick, "Rob Porter's History of Domestic Abuse Wasn't a Secret. It's Just That No One Cared." Slate     Produced by: Tre Hester

This week, the Bombshell ladies welcome Lauren Fish of the Center for a New American Security to talk all things FY19 defense budget, including why this big funding increase may not be all that it seems.  While finding future employment for Navy SEALs on the skeleton track, we talk North Korea’s charm offensive, how we and maybe everyone else have totally lost the plot in Syria, and why the Munich Security Conference was the party everyone wanted to bail on.  We offer everything you wanted to know about security clearances and deployability (and then everything you didn’t know you wanted to know).  And oh yeah, Erin’s seen Red Sparrow.   Center for New American Security, “The Bottom Line,” CNAS David Wharton, "'Peace Village,' a fake city just outside the DMZ, serves as metaphor for North Korean athletes at the Olympics," LA Times Motoko Rich and Choe Sang-Hun, "Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns On the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight," New York Times Scott Neuman, "'Dozens' Of Russian Mercenaries Reportedly Killed In U.S. Airstrikes In Syria," NPR Isabel Kershner, Anne Barnard, and Eric Schmitt, "Israel Strikes Iran in Syria and Loses a Jet," New York Times J. Dana Stuster, "Israel Strikes Iranian Targets in Syria after Drone Incursion," Lawfare Aaron Mehta, "Mattis: Unclear if Russia directed attack against U.S. allies in Syria," Military Times Eliot A. Cohen, "Witnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite," The Atlantic Henry Meyer and Patrick Donahue, "U.S.-Russia TEnsion Flares Over Nuclear Arms Control Now at Risk," Bloomberg William J. Antholis, "Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too," Politico Tara Copp, "It's official: DoD releases new 'deploy or get out' policy," Military Times Dahlia Lithwick, "Rob Porter's History of Domestic Abuse Wasn't a Secret. It's Just That No One Cared." Slate     Produced by: Tre Hester

This week Susanna Blume joins to tell us how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill - the defense budget, continuing resolutions, and other congressional hijinks. And Radha returns from maternity leave! Then we wade through the president's Jerusalem announcement and recent Brexit breakthroughs, before dissecting the new National Security Strategy. And of course we discuss Season 2 of "The Crown" - and our new gift guide!   Episode Reading: Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability,” CNAS Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “Congress, cut the continuing resolutions so Defense can do its job,” CNAS Max Fisher, “The Jerusalem Issue, Explained,” New York Times Ishaan Tharoor, “The many casualties of Trump’s Jerusalem move,” Washington Post Tony Connelly, “Brexit and the Irish Border: How the deal was salvaged,” RTE BBC, “Theresa May says Brexit deal ‘good news’ for all voters,” BBC Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler, “Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU,” BBC Kate Brannen, "Trump's National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian," The Atlantic Salman Ahmed and Alexander Bick, “Trump’s National Security Strategy: A New Brand of Mercantilism?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ilan Goldenberg, “The Selfish Motive Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Decision,” Slate Kori Schake, “The North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar,” Atlantic Mira Rapp-Hooper, “America Is Not Going to Denuclearize North Korea,” Atlantic

This week Susanna Blume joins to tell us how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill - the defense budget, continuing resolutions, and other congressional hijinks. And Radha returns from maternity leave! Then we wade through the president's Jerusalem announcement and recent Brexit breakthroughs, before dissecting the new National Security Strategy. And of course we discuss Season 2 of "The Crown" - and our new gift guide!   Episode Reading: Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability,” CNAS Susanna V. Blume and Lauren Fish, “Congress, cut the continuing resolutions so Defense can do its job,” CNAS Max Fisher, “The Jerusalem Issue, Explained,” New York Times Ishaan Tharoor, “The many casualties of Trump’s Jerusalem move,” Washington Post Tony Connelly, “Brexit and the Irish Border: How the deal was salvaged,” RTE BBC, “Theresa May says Brexit deal ‘good news’ for all voters,” BBC Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler, “Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU,” BBC Kate Brannen, "Trump's National Security Strategy is Decidedly Non-Trumpian," The Atlantic Salman Ahmed and Alexander Bick, “Trump’s National Security Strategy: A New Brand of Mercantilism?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ilan Goldenberg, “The Selfish Motive Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Decision,” Slate Kori Schake, “The North Korea Debate Sounds Eerily Familiar,” Atlantic Mira Rapp-Hooper, “America Is Not Going to Denuclearize North Korea,” Atlantic

Lauren Fish, research associate with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, discusses new challenges and opportunities with the National Defense Authorization Act. Hosted by Neal Urwitz.

Lauren Fish, research associate with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, explains the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Hosted by Neal Urwitz.

Lauren Fish, research associate with the CNAS Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, discusses the use of exosuits in the U.S. military and their advantages and opportunities on the battlefield. Hosted by Neal Urwitz.

Defense Strategy and Assessments experts Lauren Fish and Adam Routh discuss Trump's $54 billion proposed budget for the Department of Defense and what it means for readiness and modernization. Hosted by Neal Urwitz.