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Mackenzie Eaglen on “5 Lessons the U.S. Military Learned From the Pandemic”
Today’s guest essayist is my friend Mackenzie Eaglen from the American Enterprise Institute. One of the nation’s top analysts of defense issues, she explores lessons the U.S. military has already learned from the pandemic. (I would suggest they are lessons any organization ought to want to learn.) Importantly, she indicates that in order to benefit from these lessons-learned, they need to be incorporated into the Department of Defense as an institution. Ms. Eaglen has a clear and cogent writing style that I believe Lawfire® readers will find quite engaging. (The photos and illustrations are my ‘adds.’)
5 Lessons the U.S. Military Learned From the Pandemic
Mackenzie Eaglen
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started spreading in the United States, Pentagon leaders have been scrambling to adjust and adapt their three workforces that total four million people. Nearly one million defense civilians and active duty servicemembers are teleworking. Shipbuilders and other defense manufacturers that closed or reduced staff early on in the pandemic are rebuilding their capacity. Commanders are slowly lifting restrictions on troop movement and change of duty station
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Mackenzie Eaglen is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness. She is also a regular guest lecturer at universities, a member of the board of advisers of the Alexander Hamilton Society, and a member of the steering committee of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security.
While working at AEI, Ms. Eaglen served as a staff member on the National Defense Strategy Commission, a congressionally mandated bipartisan review group whose final report in November 2018, “Providing for the Common Defense,” included assessments and recommendations for the administration. Earlier, Ms. Eaglen served as a staff member on the 2014 congressionally mandated National Defense Panel, established to assess US defense interests and strategic objectives, and in 2010 on the congressionally mandated bipartisan Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel, which evaluated the Pentagon’s defense strategy. She is also one of the 12-member US Army War College Board of Visitors, which offers advice about program objectives and effectiveness.
Before joining AEI, Ms. Eaglen worked on defense issues in the House of Representatives, in the US Senate, and at the Pentagon in the Office of the Secretary of D
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Mackenzie Eaglen
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