ASYMMETRIC WARFARE THREATS IN GREECE: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS

Threats against clinicians: a preliminary descriptive classification.

Threats against psychiatrists are common, but existing studies on the subject lack descriptive information about the nature and resolution of the threat. In the present study, clinicians who had received threats were interviewed in person or by telephone, and case histories were summarized. Threats were classified as situational and transferential. Demographic factors, precipitating events, and...

Countering Emerging Threats Technologies for Asymmetrical Warfare ,

Unorthodox Thoughts about Asymmetric Warfare

I n the last few years the use of nerve agent in the Tokyo subway by Aum Shinrikyo and al Qaeda’s offensive leading to its 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon forced us to reevaluate the threat of terrorism to our art of operations. As a term of art, asymmetric warfare now dominates public attention. But many use the term with little understanding of its operational meaning....

The Asymmetric Warfare and Its Psychological Factors

The authors sum up the more capital questions of the asymmetric warfare and its psychological factors. They give overview about the military-scientific basis of the asymmetric warfare and its threats; interpretation of asymmetry in the activities of national security; Systematic elements of strategic asymmetry; coherence of strategy reacting to asymmetric threats with other strategies and final...

Women: The Combat Multiplier of Asymmetric Warfare

SGT Francis I. Fonseca, a combat medic with Charlie Company, 703d Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division, fires an M4 carbine weapon, during an advanced marksmanship course at Fort Stewart, GA, 21 February 2012. (U.S. Army, SSG Tanya Thomas) A FIRST, THE obvious question concerning the role women will play in the U.S. Army in the next 20 years is, “Whe...