background: personnel of military forces have close contact with natural habitat and usually encounter with bite of arthropods and prone to be infected with arthropod borne diseases. the imposed war against iran was one of the most important and the longest war in the middle east and even in the world and military people faced various diseases. the aim of this study was to review prevalence of ...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate acute health effects and its related factors among military personnel participating in the cleanup of the 2007 Hebei Spirit oil spill accident in Taean county, Korea. METHODS We collected data on acute symptoms during the cleanup and their predictors using a self-administered questionnaire to 2624 military personnel. Selfreported symptoms inc...

Traumatic injuries with haemorrhage are among the leading causes of death in military and civilian settings. Following recent combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the UK military has made advances in, for example, first-responder haemorrhage control, massive transfusion protocols and equipment, and it is important that staff in ED settings study the results. With reference to a case study concerning...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...

Military internists and internal medicine subspecialists are physicians who generally work in traditional internal medicine settings. However, when deployed to combat settings, they must prepare and adapt their skills for a wide spectrum of complex, polytrauma, and multinational patients. There are limitations in personnel, equipment, and technical resources that make the circumstances complex ...

INTRODUCTION Today's rapidly changing global political climate is significantly impacting the military strategies of Free World coun-triess Important decisions are being made regarding each country's defense and military equipment needss Regardless of these ongoing political changess howeverr the threat of nuclear weaponry use remains a viable possibilityy As long as a first-strike capability e...

The German inventor Konrad Zuse wrote a proposal for a cipher machine during the winter of 1939–1940. The document was prepared at the Eastern front during WWII and reached the German military authorities, possibly with the help of Kurt Pannke, a manufacturer of calculating equipment. Zuse’s scheme was recently found in his Nachlass. It is documented here for the first time. Zuse’s offer was re...

Although the bottom is not about to fall out of the military market, a tough period of belt tightening has begun. The severity of these adjustments will vary based on the size and relationship of businesses to the defense industry. Ultimately, the military procurement process must be reformed. First, by streamlining the rules. Second, by upgrading the caliber of the people involved in the proce...