The start of World War II (WWII) led to the deployment of combat troops in several continents. Destruction and many casualties among both the military and civilians became an inevitable consequence. A large amount of people injured were in need of life-saving treatment and a speedy return to duty. Intensive studies of the specific issues of diagnosis and treatment of thermal injury were conduct...

We present genetic algorithms (GAs) as a decentralised topology control mechanism distributed among active running software agents to achieve a uniform spread of terrestrial unmanned vehicles (UVs) over an unknown geographical area. This problem becomes more challenging under the harsh and bandwidth limited conditions of military applications. Using only local neighbour information, a GA guides...

This paper examines the administration of national integration in Nigeria. It describes the concepts and identifies the principles associated with the exercise. It approaches the subject by operationalizing through the content analysis paradigm and submits that the two greatest tolls of integration remain state and nation-building. It posits that since the military has had the greatest influenc...

Why did the Myanmar military initiate mass atrocities in Rakhine state alongside radical democratic reforms? We argue that were driven by intra-military rivalry. The transition to democracy was a generational of leadership brought pre-existing rivalries within fore. As is common regimes, elites rely on regional support bases. coincided with power from generals Western base – e.g. Shwe Mann an E...

Envisioning has been used extensively to model behavior of physical systems. Envisioning generates the qualitatively distinct possible behaviors without numerically simulating every possible set of input conditions and model parameters. This paper applies envisioning to analyze course of action (COA) diagrams to determine the qualitatively distinct outcomes of military operations. In order to a...

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 ...

1 Object Many military decisions can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems. Such examples include weapons-targets assignments, areas to military units assignments, cargo-loading, convoy routing, radio link frequency assignment, and many others. Furthermore, many of these decisions are still made by humans, often without resource to computing power and usually adhering to some cru...

The documentation of dental emergency (DE) rates in past global conflicts has been well established; however, little is known about wartime DE costs on the battlefield. Using DEs as an example for decreased combat effectiveness, this article analyzes the cost of treating DEs in theater, both in terms of fixed and variable costs, and also highlighted the difficulties that military units experien...