Thank you for your interest in military personnel issues of concern to the Center for Military Readiness. Please click on individual issue topics at left or down below for news and background information.

The "Essential Resources" and "Highlights" sections elsewhere on this website provide more links to background documents and reports that provide perspective and historic context.

In addition, articles on a variety of topics are available in the CMR Notes (click here) section, which includes a ‘Search’ function that will provide you with abstracts of CMR Notes publications that discuss the issue in question. 

Issue Topics

• News & Commentary: Breaking News and Commentary on issues of concern to CMR; Presidential, Pentagon and Congressional Actions; Homeland Security.
  
  
• DACOWITS: The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services: Tax-funded feminist activism in the Pentagon; Radical "equal opportunity" agenda for women in combat on land, sea, and in the air.
  
  
• Women in Combat: Pressures to assign to women to combat units that directly engage the enemy, such as Special Operations helicopters, submarines, land combat units; and the Army’s newly-forming Interim Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs); Current assignment rules; News from the War on Terrorism; Opinion polls; Report of the 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.
  
  
• Co-ed Basic Training: Aberdeen Proving Ground and basic training base sexual misconduct scandals: Study commission reports; Congressional debate; Physical differences; Gender-normed standards; Attrition rates; Discipline/Sexual Misconduct; Co-ed barracks and tents; Sensitivity Training; Infantry Officer Basic/Leader Course; and the "Army of One."
  
  
• Gays in the Military: Why Congress voted to exclude homosexuals from the military; Text of the 1993 statute; Why the Clinton-era enforcement regulations, known as "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," are inconsistent with the law and should be dropped; Campus controversies; Litigation to challenge; Misleading training materials; "diversity" training; the homosexual agenda for the military.
  
  
• Sex Scandals: Gender quotas; Double standards; Personal conduct rules; Pregnancy and childcare policies; Sensitivity training; political correctness; Tailhook scandal; Single parenthood; Dependent child care.
  
  
• International Policies: Military personnel policies in other countries, such as Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Israel, Netherlands, and Sweden.
  
  
• People in the News: Military personnel and civilians whose statements or actions are influencing military personnel policies.
  
  
• Military Culture: The "civilian/military gap;" Discipline and the "warrior culture;" Unit cohesion; Civilian control of the military; Army black berets; Credibility of leadership.
  
  
• Recruiting/Draft/ROTC: Recruiting and retention figures; Recruiting campaigns; i.e., the "Army of One;" Personnel shortages; Selective Service registration; women and the draft.
  
  
• Social/Family Policies: International alliances and coalitions; the United Nations; NATO; proposed International Criminal Court; Viequies; Russia; the ABM Treaty and missile defenses; the Middle East; Bosnia; Kosovo "Peace War;" China and the Pacific.
  
  
• Congress/Politics: Agenda for positive change; 2000 Presidential Campaign Candidate Survey and election issues; Military voters; Recommendations for positive change; Budget priorities; Congressional hearings and actions.
  
  
• CMR Court Victory: Status of litigation intended to silence CMR.