In this article, we provide an overview of key international guidelines governing the supply of pharmaceuticals during disasters and complex emergencies. We review the World Health Organization's guidelines on pharmaceutical supply chain management and highlight their relevance for military humanitarian assistance missions. Given the important role of pharmaceuticals in addressing population he...

Information systems security defines three properties of information: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. These characteristics remain major concerns throughout the commercial and military industry. In this work, we focus on the integrity aspect of commercial security applications by exploring the nature and scope of the famous integrity policy the Clinical Information Systems Policy....

Preventive maintenance is required to keep critical systems available at reasonable costs. Instead of applying the traditional experience-based approach of statistical analysis of failure data, the present paper proposes to adopt a predictive maintenance policy that relies on detailed knowledge of the physical failure mechanisms. A structured scheme for this approach is presented. Then three ca...

Informational conflicts in operational policies cause agents to run into situations where responding based on the rules in one policy violates the same or another policy. Static checking of these conflicts is infeasible and impractical in a dynamic environment. This paper discusses a practical approach to handling policy conflicts in real-time domains within the context of a hierarchical milita...

The purposed-the main purpose of this study is to look at the development of efficiency and productivity in the military hospital sector of Tehran province, by applying a nonparametric method. Design/methodology/approach- The study applied the nonparametric method to assess the efficiency of military hospitals service in Iran, Tehran, over the period 2013-2016. Utilizing non-parametric me...

iii Executive summary 1 Chapter 1 Resetting the rules of engagement: trends and issues in military–humanitarian relations 5 Victoria Wheeler and Adele Harmer, HPG 1.1 The history and changing nature of military engagement in crisis response 6 1.1.1 The increased military presence in policy and operational theatres of humanitarian interest 7 1.1.2 Organisational and doctrinal changes at national...

the aim of this paper is investigating and studying of geopolitical dimensions of russia in the caspian sea. russian post-soviet geopolitics invokes euroasianism as its inner rationale and meaning, as a greater good that imbues pragmatic, interest based politics with a sense of mission. eurasianism as a particular tradition of theorizing russia’s identity and place in the world has a momentum o...

A ppointed head military attaché in Hitler's Berlin in 1935, career U. S. Army officer Truman Smith harbored no illusions about the challenges he faced. As he recalled later in his memoirs: " I saw at firsthand how inadequately organized, staffed, and financed the Military Intelligence Division was. It became clear to me also that Military Intelligence was the orphan branch of the General Staff...