Inhalt 1. Police and armed forces two polar types of coercive organizations ..................................................... 2 2. Decentralized Conflicts and Enlarged Policing Ambitions: the New Era of Global Policing ..................... 4 3. Ambiguities, Dilemmas and Incompatibilities: The New Problems of Policing Militaries ........................ 6 3.1 Unspecified intervention criter...

Aims: The goal of this study was to survey the factors influencing the productivity of human resources in a military health organization. Methods: It was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study carried out in 2012 with 400 participants. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for data collection. For data analysis, SPSS 18.0 and Amos software were used. Results: In the path analysis don...

New technologies play a central role in the realization of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) but few can envision, design and afford the implementation of a completely new NCW organization. For years to come, new and old practices and technologies will coexist. Until now, the supposed value and capacity of new technologies rest on a series of hypotheses regarding design and benefits. We need a bett...

Revolution in the area of information technology has brought about changes in many spheres of life. Today, information systems are being used in very sensitive areas such as defence and missile control systems, nuclear plants, etc. Not only has it changed how business is conducted, it has also brought about entirely new paradigms like that of information and cyber warfare. Similarly, one of the...

Background This study aimed to identify and prioritize factors affecting the development of military hospital beds and provide a model using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP). Methods This applied study was conducted in 2016 in Iran using a mixed method. The sample included experts in the field of military health care system. The MAXQDA 10.0 and Expert Choice 10.0 software were u...

The Public Sector Defense market is undergoing radical changes due to the ever-changing global and local political circumstances. As a result of this, political leaders are demanding changes that will affect all aspects within military organizations. In addition to that budget constraints that are imposed within the government also put a burden on the military decision makers. For more than 30 ...