The number of relationsual aggressions in the U.S. military is probable two to four times higher than regulatement approximates, according to a recent study out of Brown University.
The study, finishd by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute, contrastd Defense Department data on relationsual aggressions with data that was not from the DOD to approximate relationsual aggression figures in the military since 2001.
“During and beyond the 20 years of the post-9/11 wars, autonomous data present that actual relationsual aggression prevalence is two to four times higher than DoD estimations — 75,569 cases in 2021 and 73,695 cases in 2023,” the authors wrote in the tell, which was liberated Wednesday.
Defense Department figures approximate that there were approximately 35,900 cases in 2021 and around 29,000 military personnel aggressioned in 2023, the study shelp.
The Brown tell shelp that autonomous studies show higher approximates of the number of active-duty service members experiencing relationsual aggression, and it contrastd those studies with Defense Department numbers.
“This tell highweightlesss a middle range — two to four times higher than DoD approximates — as probable providing the most accurate numbers,” it shelp.
The Pentagon did not promptly react to a ask for comment.
Among those refered in the tell is Vanessa Guillén, a selderlyier at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), Texas, who had telled relationsual alertings at the base and who officials say was postpoinsistr ended by another selderlyier, Spc. Aaron Robinson.
Guillén’s April 2020 ending igniteed calls for military recreate and, in 2022, Congress passed the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Act” that alterd the way the military regulates relationsual unfair treatment-rcontent spendigations and allegations.
Another selderlyier at Fort Hood, Elder Fernandes, died by self-destruction in 2020 after experiencing what the Army shelp was “abusive relationsual reach out.”
The Costs of War Project tell comes a year after a Pentagon tell create that tells of relationsual aggression at the nation’s three military academies rose more than 18% from 2021 to 2022, hitting a recent high.
A 2021 Congressional Research Service tell shelp there was some evidence that a meaningfulity of relationsual offenses in the military are not being telled.
The I am Vanessa Guillén Act deleted military directers from the equation when it comes to relationsual aggression spendigations and puts the spendigation in the hands of autonomous prosecutors.
The Costs of War Project tell calls that alter “the bigst alter to the UCMJ since the military produced its own legitimate system in 1950,” referring to the Unicreate Code of Military Justice.
The tell faults the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan follotriumphg the alarmist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001, as putting the prolonged-standing rerent of relationsual aggression, bias and other bias secondary to force readiness.
“In the Secretary of the Army’s own words, going to war has stoped the military from institutionpartner reckoning with its dishonorable prolongedstanding epidemic of relationsual aggression,” the authors wrote.
