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Why Women Belong in Coast Guard Crews
Robert C. Parker
Apr 18, 2019
Boston Herald
The Coast Guard benefits from the heightened respect that colleagues show each other in mixed-gender units, allowing personnel to focus and excel at their tasks at hand. When the Coast Guard zeroes in on evidence-based and appropriate accommodations for women and their physical capacities, as well as with parenting and family life, it will benefit everyone in uniform.
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Hong Kong
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Hong Kong, Education Reform, Baghdad: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 14, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on lessons for state education reform, retaining women in the U.S. Coast Guard, recounting the Battle for Baghdad, and more.
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Postsecondary Education
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Iran, Prison College Programs, Fentanyl: RAND Weekly Recap
May 24, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on Iran's nonstate partners, lessons from a prison college program, what a fentanyl ban in China means for the U.S. opioid crisis, and more.
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Russia
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Childhood Trauma, Space Traffic, China–Russia Relations: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 26, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on a program that helps children exposed to trauma, making outer space safer, tighter China–Russia relations, and more.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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NATO's 70th Anniversary, Food Deserts, Teachers: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 5, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on effective teachers, NATO's 70th anniversary, food deserts, and more.
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Border and Port Security
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Ten Years After the Safe Port Act, Are America's Ports Secure?
Henry H. Willis @HenryHWillis
Apr 6, 2016
The Cipher Brief
The economic importance and visibility of America's ports make them attractive terrorism targets. Port security has improved, but many of the threats that motivated the Safe Ports Act in 2006 remain, and new dangers have emerged, including cyber threats.
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Maritime Piracy
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Who Has the Will to Fight Piracy?
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins
Apr 21, 2009
GlobalSecurity.org
The recent French and American rescues of hostages held by pirates off the coast of Somalia were necessary and proper. No one believes these actions will end piracy. But unless we impose risks on the pirates--which means taking some risks ourselves--piracy will certainly flourish, writes Brian Michael Jenkins.
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