The Unitary State of the Republic Indonesia in international arena has an active free politics, attitudes and views related to Indonesian foreign policy such as often have differences attitude with other countries responding issues. Ministry Defense, which covers three branches TNI, namely Army, Navy Air Force, is very concerned about Military Academy education abroad by providing scholarships ...

eight years of sacred defense of iran against saddam hussein's baath regime has been studied from different perspectives. meanwhile, western analysts also have discussed this war from their own point of view which can be important and worthy in its own turn. now that many years have passed from the termination of iraq war against iran, reviewing and analyzing this war can expose many negle...

The evolution of the defense innovation system in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been shaped by the overall development of the country’s science and technology, education, and industrial systems. The defense innovation system has experienced three stages of evolution from the perspective of civil-military integration (CMI): an initial development stage under Mao Zedong, a period of re...

a National Key Laboratory for Information System Engineering, College of Information System and Management, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China b National MOE Key Laboratory for Services Computing Technology and System, College of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China c Research Center of M...

Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From an OLS regression on pooled data, our results show that presidential democracies spend more than parliamentary systems on defense, whereas the presence of a plurality voting sy...

BACKGROUND This study seeks to quantify variation in healthcare utilization and per capita costs using system-defined geographic regions based on enrollee residence within the Military Health System (MHS). METHODS Data for fiscal years 2007 - 2010 were obtained from the Military Health System under a data sharing agreement with the Defense Health Agency (DHA). DHA manages all aspects of the D...

The Study of Innovation and Technology in China (SITC) is a project of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. SITC Policy Briefs provide analysis and recommendations based on the work of project participants. Author's views are their own. Summary O ver the past two decades, the relationship between China's civilian and military industrial sectors has been und...

BACKGROUND Military culture and workplace are areas of interest for researchers across disciplines. However, few publications on military culture exist. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce general concepts regarding the structure and culture of the United States Military and discuss how this creates challenges for reintegrating into the civilian world. METHOD Topics that w...

This chapter is designed to relate the rationale used by the Department of Defense, to utilize Telemedicine, to meet increasing global crises, and for the U.S. military to find ways to more effectively manage manpower and time. A mobile Telemedicine package has been developed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to collect and transmit near-real-time, far-forward medical data and to assess how th...

the sanjâbi or senjâwi tribe was one of the kurdish tribes in west of iranthatsupportedthetransitionalgovernment of nizam al-saltana and its nationalist supporters and united with ottoman and german forces to express its opposition to the presence and activities of russian and britishtroopsduringtheworldwari.  after the victory of russian and britisharmiesiniranianwestern regions, this tribe be...