The doctrinal definition of Information Operations (IO) focuses exclusively on offensive and defensive activities. This paper proposes extending the definition of IO to include information efficacy. Then it describes a new approach to military planning and execution called Anticipatory Planning. This approach seeks to merge planning and execution, and replaces reaction to events with anticipati...

AIM To present the phases and activities over the period of the existence and work of the Military Hospital in Skopje, from its establishment in 1944 to its transformation on 01.01.2010. METHODS A retrospective study based on available archive materials, encyclopaedias and other sources of information and review of the relevant literature, and personal experiences, observations and memories o...

The mission of Anti-Tamper (AT) is to deter reverse engineering of critical military technology to impede technology transfer, alteration of system capability, and prevent development of countermeasures. AT is important because governments are investing billions of dollars to develop sophisticated weapon systems and technologies. However, weapons that are vulnerable to tampering can weaken a mi...

This is the second in a series of three papers that examine the role of international military medical services in stability operations in unstable countries. The paper discusses security sector reform in general terms and highlights the interdependency of the armed forces, police, judiciary and penal systems in creating a 'secure environment'. The paper then looks at components of a local mili...

In this paper, recent concepts in the management of war wounds of the maxillofacial region are described. A brief differentiation is also given between general practice medicine and military medicine.

OBJECTIVE To assess the public's awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV) as a causative factor for oropharyngeal cancer. STUDY DESIGN Twenty-three-item survey. SETTING Local shopping malls and Maxwell Air Force Base in 2012. METHODS Respondents were randomly chosen to participate in 23-item survey at various local shopping malls and at Maxwell Air Force Base in 2012. The χ(2) test was use...

Conscientious objection is the right of physicians to reject a practice or action that violates their ethical or moral principles (1). In majority of democratic countries, an individual has a legitimate right to conscientiously object and refuse to act according to the law or its individual provisions that prescribe behavior contrary to the individual’s conscience. However, it is necessary that...