NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean

Casualty rates among naval forces ashore.

Casualty rates for naval forces ashore across varying battle intensities are needed as input to medical and manpower planning models. Casualty data of medical and construction battalions participating in World War II amphibious assaults, Korea, and Vietnam were extracted from archival sources. Casualty rates among naval ashore forces fluctuated with battle intensity. The rate during intense com...

Evolving Interoperable Network Architectures for NATO Coalition Forces

Military communications capabilities have evolved under stringent requirements for reliability and security. Today, these legacy systems need to support Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) but are challenged to provide the bandwidth and interoperability common in civilian systems. Internet Protocol (IP) has become the universal standard for flexible networking and the pre-requisite for advanced ...

Maritime Security: The New Mission of Naval Forces

In this paper, the new mission of naval forces, i.e. the mission of “ensuring the security at sea and the security against the dangers threatening from sea” – have been discussed and presented. Especially the content of today’s World’s terrorism, the subject of the global war on transnational terrorism, the subject of the maritime security, as well as the consequences resulting form the new mis...

Cognitive Radio in NATO

Nutritional Status in Some Iranian Naval Units

Background and Aim: Healthy diet has an important role in the success of military operations, so the commanders and all forces must understand the relationship between proper diet and the physical ability to perform physical activity. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the nutritional status of the military in order to provide strategies to improve the health status and increase the ef...