National security doesn't really exist without the military forces and supporting civilians to carry it out. Recruitment remains a problem for the armed forces. And there's a lot of stress on the civilian workforce at the moment. For some ways forward, we turn to someone who's examined national security human capital in detail. She the director of studies at CNAS, Katherine Kuzminski.

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