Military contingency operations in tropical environments and potential use of biological weapons by adversaries may place troops at risk for potentially lethal contagious infections (e.g., viral hemorrhagic fevers, plague, and zoonotic poxvirus infections). Diagnosis and treatment of such infections would be expedited by evacuating a limited number of patients to a facility with containment lab...

The co-operation of multiple types of military aircraft has become one of the basic features in air combats. In order to improve comprehensive support capability, how to optimize the resources distribution of ground support equipment is an important content of the air force stations modernization construction. The uneconomic and unreasonable reasons of allocation approach are analyzed based on ...

This analysis of the future of the Australian Army takes as its rationale the proposition advanced by the military scholar Peter Paret, that the most important problem facing armed forces is never equipment, weapons acquisition or capability development, but the intellectual mastery of current and future military concepts. 1 In terms of intellectual mastery, the Australian Army—like its peers i...

The American military spends a great deal of its resources in efforts to outmatch potential opponents. Usually this takes the form of better equipment, morale and training. Nonetheless, the most important facet of the military operation is leadership. There are, however, few concrete methods that can be applied to lend the commander a reliable advantage. One such approach that has proven succes...

Only a few nonnuclear weapons states with uranium-fueled power plants have kept the weapons option open, and none has evidenced activities intended for diverting fissionable material from its civilian system. Analysis of alternative strategies shows that acquisition of nuclear weapons material would probably depend on military production facilities rather than diversion. Horizontal proliferatio...

OBJECTIVES Recent military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have highlighted the wartime effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The reason for the prominence of TBI in these particular conflicts as opposed to others is unclear but may result from the increased survivability of blast due to improvements in body armor. In the military context blunt, ballistic and blast effects may all contribut...

Reducing populations of phlebotomine sand flies in areas prevalent for human leishmaniases is of ongoing importance to United States military operations and civilian populations in endemic regions. However, not enough is known regarding the efficacy of Department of Defense-approved pesticides and equipment against sand flies; specifically, the potential for ultra-low volume (ULV) pesticide app...

Business ethicists should examine not only business practices but whether a particular type of business is even prima facie ethical. To illustrate how this might be done I here examine the contemporary U.S. defense industry. In the past the U.S. military has engaged in missions that arguably satisfied the just war self-defense rationale, thereby implying that its suppliers of equipment and serv...

This article discusses the regulatory requirements for the use of unapproved drugs and off-label use of drugs and provides specific examples for military medicine. Additionally, it explains issues associated with standardization by the Service as a designated set, kit, or outfit as opposed to a general guidance. The former situation can be interpreted as a de facto policy whereas the latter is ...

Many individuals suffer from anxiety, stress, and depression and those serving in the U.S. military are no exception. Warfighters keep returning from theater with combat stress. Several of these military service members are also technology oriented and tend to prefer performing their daily life activities with and/or near computerized systems. Fortunately, some researchers specialize in helping...