by Eliza Larson | Aug 11, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Center of Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden told a House Foreign Affairs panel the Ebola outbreak can be stopped but action needs to be taken quickly. “We can stop Ebola,” Frieden said “We have to stop it at the source in Africa.”...
by Alix Hines | Aug 11, 2014 | National Security
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by Carolyn Freundlich | Aug 11, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Jamie Livingston joined the Navy in 2000 because she “wanted to be part of something bigger than myself.” But during her seven years in uniform, she was sexually harassed and says she was subsequently raped twice, and now is fighting for disability...
by Christen Simeral | Aug 7, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A top Defense Department official says the military already is feeling the effects of climate change on bases and operations, while a congressional investigative agency called on the Pentagon to set strict deadlines to ensure it adapts to rising sea...
by Carolyn Freundlich | Aug 7, 2014 | National Security
Despite a longstanding Defense Department restriction on women in ground combat units, the non-linear battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan often placed women in harms way. New policies recognize that experiences faced by women in combat over the last 13 years....
by Eliza Larson | Aug 6, 2014 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – When it comes to the Ebola outbreak, there is still “no strategic plan of how we’re going to bring this under control,” a prestigious Washington think tank warned this week. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellows John Campbell and Laurie Garrett said...
