Privatized Barracks Would Get Deeper Look Under House's Draft Defense Bill

A lead mold remediation specialist at Fort Stewart shows where a barrack room's bathroom ceiling has mold.

As the military services flirt with the idea of privatizing more barracks to deal with deteriorating living conditions, a key House panel wants the Pentagon to study the issue more in depth. In its draft National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, released this week, the House Armed Services Committee calls on the Pentagon to deliver […]

What an All-Volunteer Force Looks Like Today 50 Years After America Ditched the Draft

Future soldiers recite the oath of enlistment before an NFL game in Phoenix.

Taren Dillon Sylvester is a researcher at the Center for a New American Security. Despite 50 years of an All-Volunteer Force, fear of conscription remains just below the surface as Americans consider the role of the U.S. military and their relationship to it. Today, whispers of conscription ripple across social media whenever it seems that […]