From January 2003 to December 2011, over 50,000 service members were medically evacuated from the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation New Dawn (OND) theater of combat operations to a medical treatment facility outside of theater. During the period, the numbers and underlying causes of medical evacuations sharply varied in relation to the numbers of deployed service members and the natures o...

OBJECTIVE To describe the patient population, injuries, and treatment received on the battlefield, and ultimate outcome of U.S. military working dogs that incurred gunshot wound (GSW) injury in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) or Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq). DESIGN Retrospective study between January 2003 and December 2009. ANIMALS Twenty-nine military working dogs from the U.S. ...

We invoke a neo-Foucauldian model of the panoptic gaze to understand the practices of military visuality and of newly emerging efforts to resist and subvert deep-seated and long-held governmental secrecy over military/intelligence activities and their sites of operation. The case studies set out in the second half of the paper are attempts question excessive secrecy underlying the military pano...

From Wall Street to the streets of Baghdad, information drives action. Confounding this edict for the military is not only the unprecedented increase in the types and amount of information available, but the ability to separate the important information from the routine. Termed the value of information (VOI), the modern military commander and his staff require improved methodologies for assessi...

4TAbstract This paper focuses on an integrated demand-responsive scheduling of operations within a two-echelon military supply network consisting of maintenance and transportation operations during peacetime. The paper emphasizes on the continuous operation of military's training facilities. Integration of operations is carried out by embedding an additional intermediary (command) module into t...

In 1954, O.G. Haywood used game theory to analyze the military decisions used in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a battle fought during the World War II. Haywood analyzed the Battle of the Bismarck Sea by using a two-person zero-sum game [1]. This paper discusses the fundamental concepts of the two-person zero-sum game and some Nash Equilibrium dominance ideas as well as the strategies applied ...