Americanpediatricianshavegone towar foralmostas longaspediatrics has been a specialty. A decade after Jacobi, Osler, and Forchheimer founded the American Pediatric Society in 1888, pediatricians, or “pediatrists” as they were sometimes called, were serving with the American military on foreign soil. Across more than a century of service, the role of pediatricians in armed conflict has often bee...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the association between the onset of psychiatric morbidity and separation from military service over a 10-year period (1991-2001). METHOD The prevalence of affective, anxiety, somatic, and substance use disorders was assessed in 2,215 male Australian Navy personnel with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. RESULTS The onset of a psychiatric dis...

BACKGROUND Research has documented a consistent and strong association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and negative health outcomes in adulthood. The Department of Defense is expanding health surveillance of military members and considering the inclusion of ACE questions. OBJECTIVE To explore the perceptions and attitudes of service members and spouses regarding the use of ACE que...

Since Biblical times, heat injuries have been a major focus of military medical personnel. Heat illness accounts for considerable morbidity during recruit training and remains a common cause of preventable nontraumatic exertional death in the United States military. This brief report describes current regulations used by Army, Air Force, and Navy medical personnel to return active duty warfight...

This article will elaborate on the dynamics of Siege Dubrovnik and analyze its implications with special emphasis Battle for Srđ. Based theory (military) defense strategy, focus is city in 1991 war reference to Srđ (on December 6, 1991). By analyzing military documents, as well documents International Criminal Tribunal former Yugoslavia The Hague (ICTY), historical sources, interviews participa...

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 put extreme pressures on the relations between the American defense and decision-making apparatuses. While the military pushed for a military intervention, President Kennedy and his advisors wished to safeguard nonmilitary options. The tensions between the two systems can be analyzed in terms of communication systems with different rationalities: whereas the pol...

The Pandemic Influenza Policy Model (PIPM) is a collaborative computer modeling effort between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Many helpful computer simulations exist for examining the propagation of pandemic influenza in civilian populations. We believe the mission-oriented nature and structured social composition of military in...

Federal law that codifies military criminal procedure provides that “[n]o person subject to this chapter may attempt to coerce or, by any unauthorized means, influence the action of a court-martial . . . or the action of any convening, approving, or reviewing authority with respect to his judicial acts.”2 This section of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) statutorily limits the reach o...