OVER THE LAST 25 years the United States has become increasingly dependent on space-based systems to support its military forces, and this trend is likely to continue for some time. Satellite systems have become an integral part of nuclear deterrence by providing strategic warning of an attack, tactical warning of missile launches, reliable communications between command authorities and nuclear...

Abstract In the historiography of nuclear arms in Cold War political and military strategic levels are dominant; little attention has been paid to sub-strategic levels. This is understandable, because most archival material destroyed or still classified. However, it also remarkable tactical weapons ( tnw ) were a crucial element nato strategies all forces had prepare, down lowest levels, fight ...

manoeuvre, is one of the principles of war in most of the world’s armies. mobility and manoeuvre of the operational and support forces in the battle fields occur in bed of natural and cultural geographic factors, i.e, avenue approach and frontier transportation networks. so for this reason analyzing this geographical factors in skills such as line identification in tactical and operational leve...

The Department of Defense (DoD) is spending millions of dollars on many Directed Energy (DE) programs. One of the programs, known as the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL), requires the use of a high-energy laser in order to destroy ground targets from a standard C-130H aircraft. The ATL, which is still not fully operational and battle field ready, presents a great amount of potential for maintainin...

This paper explores the possibility of applying multi-sensor information fusion technology to the development of smart aircraft. This technology integrates information from multiple sensors and extracts tactical information to detect, track and identify time critical targets at any time, in any place and under all weather conditions. Such target information will help the war fighter avoid fratr...

The concept of strategy has been developed first in a military and political context. Military strategy books, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by von Clausewitz, are famous and have become business classics. Sun Tzu developed the tactical side of military strategy and Von Clausewitz highlighted the dynamic and unpredictable nature of military strategy. The growth of firms and indus...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is reported to be caused by traumatic events that are outside the range of usual human experiences including (but not limited to) military combat, violent personal assault, being kidnapped or taken hostage and terrorist attacks. Initial data suggests that 1 out of 6 returning Iraq War military personnel are exhibiting symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTS...

The concept of strategy has been developed first in a military and political context. Military strategy books, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by von Clausewitz, are famous and have become business classics. Sun Tzu developed the tactical side of military strategy and Von Clausewitz highlighted the dynamic and unpredictable nature of military strategy. The growth of firms and indus...

in this study, a cross-docking system is designed at strategic and tactical levels. for making the strategic decisions, a multi-objective nonlinear location allocation model for cross-docks is presented based on a distri-bution location allocation model by andreas klose and andreas drexl. the model is further developed to in-clude the whole supply chain members and the objective functions are w...