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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is jeopardizing America's national security with his hold on some 300 military promotions, writes former undersecretary of Defense Dov S. Zakheim. |
In fact, Zakheim says, by undermining America's national defenses, Tuberville is "acting as an unwitting accomplice to Vladimir Putin's depredations in Europe and Xi Jinping's aggressiveness in Asia." Tuberville insists he will continue the holds until the Pentagon stops paying for its personnel to travel from bases in states that restrict abortions to states that permit them, which he says violates federal law. But, Zakheim writes, "with the holdup in promotions, the cycle of upward movement at all military levels is being broken, and those men and women who expected to maintain their seniority will find that it has disappeared." Military families are especially burdened. "Families that expected to move to new homes as part of their military member's projected permanent change of station no longer know when, or if, such a move might take place." "The likely effect of all of these developments on the personal lives of servicemen and women is obvious: they will choose to leave the military." At a time when the U.S. military's recruitment has plummeted to crisis levels, that might be the most devastating effect of all. Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, Sept. 8. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Max Burns, Democratic Strategist |
Ask a MAGA Republican what will happen if former President Donald Trump is convicted in any of his four criminal trials and the answer is almost always the same: civil war. |
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By Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University |
Not every denial of a transgender claim is a threat to transgender existence. But transgender people are not wrong to feel that their existence is in question in every such conversation. Those politicians who have advanced their careers by vilifying their innocent fellow citizens should be ashamed of themselves. |
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By Bernard Goldberg, Emmy Award-winning writer and journalist |
If there's nothing incriminating in those emails, if there's nothing that ties Joe Biden to Hunter's slimy operation, wouldn't he have released them by now? But he hasn't. So, it's reasonable, I think, to ask: Why not? |
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By Liz Peek, former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim & Company |
Despite having green-lighted the large Willow oil project in Alaska, which angered some environmentalists, Biden arguably has the climate vote locked up. He does not need to pile on, but that is what he is doing. He is truly playing with fire; voters do not blame Vladimir Putin or "greedy" oil companies when gas prices soar, they blame Joe Biden. |
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