Abstract Background Tension pneumothorax is one of the leading causes preventable death on battlefield. Current prehospital diagnosis relies a subjective clinical impression complemented by manual thoracic and respiratory examination. These techniques are not fully applicable in field conditions battlefield, where situational environmental factors may impair capabilities. We aimed to assemble d...

Internet of things (IoT) technology and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) cluster combat are likely to be the key technologies deployed on future battlefield. The present research indicates that IoT selects optimal strategy according attacker’s maintain connection. Thereafter, an UAV battlefield confrontation system model is established. This then transformed into a dynamic game attacker defender,...

Drone warfare disrupts the generally understood experience of war, and drone operators’ distance from battlefield has called into question authenticity their experiences as participants in conflict. This article examines autobiographies three US military operators, analysing how narration is discursively oriented to particular spatial ideological perspectives. It argues that linguistic construc...

BACKGROUND By the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care, battlefield casualties are preferentially triaged on the basis of pulse character and mental status. A weak or absent palpable pulse correlates with a systolic blood pressure (SBP) of ≤ 100 mm Hg. Furthermore, the motor component of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS-M) has been shown to correlate with outcomes. In a previous study, the au...

BACKGROUND Breakdowns in the ethical conduct of soldiers towards non-combatants on the battlefield are of grave concern in war. Evidence-based training approaches to prevent unethical conduct are scarce. We assessed the effectiveness of battlefield-ethics training and factors associated with unethical battlefield conduct. METHODS The training package, based on movie vignettes and leader-led d...

Ascertaining the medical status of soldiers deployed in the battlefield is essential for medical and strategic decision-making. The diagnostic and treatment methods used in the battlefield are currently suboptimal due to limited field resources and communication mechanisms. The system described herein is designed to remotely assess the medical status of deployed soldiers to augment resources of...

This paper describes FOX-GA, an intelligent planning decision support tool for assisting military intelligence and maneuver battlestaff in rapidly generating and assessing battlefield courses of action (COAs). The motivations behind FOX stem from the need to plan and replan rapidly in such a way as to allow users flexibility and control over planning objectives and options. The environment in w...

With the advent of Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) concepts, Command and Control (C2) Systems need efficient methods for communicating between heterogeneous systems. To extract or exchange various levels of information within the networks requires interoperability between human and machine as well as between machine and machine. This dissertation explores the Information Exchange Framework (IEF) ...

This article examines behavior in the Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric forces. In this constant-sum game, two players simultaneously allocate their forces across n-battlefields, with the objective of maximizing the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a battlefield is deterministic, th...