Dr. Alice Hunt "Kiddo" Friend

@ahfdc

Sr Fellow | Visiting Research Prof | PhD | Co-host | Opinions mine; facts belong to everyone.

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  1. 3 hours ago

    Please read 's new piece on the nomination of Lloyd Austin. He would be the first Black Secretary of Defense. Ever. The debate about his need for a waiver tends to overshadow this fact. I'm not sure it should. Meg has helped me think about it.

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  2. 19 hours ago

    Can we agree the official 2020 Xmas song is “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”? “Someday soon we all will be together, if the fates allow/ Until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow. So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.”

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  3. Dec 20

    I just had to say to one of my children: “Please don’t bite the walls.”

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  4. Dec 18

    But who will guard... the Guardians?

    BREAKING: Space Force members will officially be called GUARDIANS Vice President Mike Pence announces alongside Space Force chief Gen. John Raymond, A/SecDef Chris Miller and SecAF Barbara Barrett at the White House
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  5. Dec 18

    My husband is a doctor. He’s not at the top of the list to get the vaccine, but I didn’t realize how relieved I would be to see photos of some of his medical and environmental svcs staff colleagues receiving it this week. So grateful to the scientists who made it happen.

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  6. Dec 17

    Sassy Dan Rather is one of 2020’s bright spots.

    So, let me get this right. The criticism of Dr. Jill Biden is that she’s not a “medical doctor?” Says a bunch of people who have been ignoring medical doctors about a pandemic that has killed over 300,000 Americans? Can someone invent a hypocrisy mute button?
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  7. Dec 15

    Brilliant.

    If we’re calling people “diversity hires” then I would like to also coin the term “homogeneity hire”: A person who is hired, not because they were the best, but because they were the same. Used in a sentence: “Mike hired another Mike - he’s probably a homogeneity hire🤭”
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  8. Dec 15

    To keep up the flow of writing, I just made a placeholder footnote as follows: "Right? Check. Also, need a good long discussion of the 165 years of history I just referenced." Future me is gonna hate past me so much.

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  9. Dec 14

    Last week, I released my latest on civilian control of the military... in the Sahel! In it, I argue that the international community should emphasize civilian capacity to control the military as much as military training. Read it here:

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  10. Dec 12

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  11. Dec 11

    I am so glad put this into words. Lloyd Austin’s nomination is not a series of zero-sum trade offs. Many things can be true at once and we can make room for all of them. Including what it means for racial equity and inclusion.

    “This is a debate that should be rigorous & difficult, if not outright uncomfortable...But the pushback against Austin’s nomination has left little room to celebrate what is also a milestone for Black Americans in and out of uniform.”
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  12. Dec 11

    I welcome a debate about whether the Secretary of Defense should have a mostly military or mostly civilian background. In 1947 Congress decided it should be the latter. We seem to be changing our minds. But lets think it through in good faith. We all want national security. Fin.

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  13. Dec 11

    We can also have this debate without denigrating civilian service to the country. It is also honorable. It also confers skills, knowledge, and leadership abilities.

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  14. Dec 11

    The American people overwhelmingly indicate in survey after survey that they have enormous faith in the integrity and trustworthiness of the military as a profession and an institution. That is not at issue here.

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  15. Dec 11

    The debate is about experience, expertise, partisan and national and inter-branch political skills, and the risks of (further) politicizing the military. It is absolutely not about the integrity or prestige of women and men who serve in uniform.

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  16. Dec 11

    No one serious is arguing that senior military officers who have not been retired for a minimum of 7 years "are single-minded killing machines that have to be controlled by more erudite and sensitive people."

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  17. Dec 11

    Huzzah!

    Congratulations to on being elected 2022-23 President of the International Studies Association
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  18. Dec 11

    I am extremely excited to announce that 's newest Non-Resident Senior Associate is the good and great , who will be contributing her formidable civil-military relations expertise to our work. Welcome, Heidi!

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    Dec 10

    The barriers people of color face in today's military remain real and significant, and they must change. Recently, & I spoke with and about these issues on .

    On this episode about race and the military, and I took a simple approach. We asked , , Jada Johnson, James Johnson, , and questions -- and we listened. We hope you will, too.
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  20. Dec 10

    Feaver has the best civ-mil response to the Austin nom I’ve seen. He explains why there is a norm of civilian Secretary of Defense the 7-year law is meant to reinforce and then suggests ways a Secretary Austin can work to mitigate any damage to that norm.

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