Drones enhance military capability and form a potent element of force protection, allowing humans to be removed from hazardous environments and tedious jobs. However, there are moral, legal, and political dangers associated with their use. Although a time may come when it is possible to develop a drone that is able to autonomously and ethically engage a legitimate target with greater reliabilit...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Regimen Switching After Initial Haart By Race in a Military Cohort Christina Schofield, Xun Wang, Patrick Monahan, Xiuping Chu, Margaret Glancey, Anuradha Ganesan, Jason F. Okulicz and Brian K. Agan Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, USA Madigan Army M...

November-December 2012  MILITARY REVIEW Major Ben Zweibelson is currently the 1-2 Cavalry Regiment operations officer in Vilseck, Germany. He is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, having recently served with NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, where he led operational level planning efforts that fused design theory with detailed planning. He holds an M.A. from Louisiana State University, an MMA...

The Applied Research Laboratory has been helping U.S. law enforcement and military agencies develop an information base on which to make decisions about minimal force options for conflict resolution since 1997. The premise of minimal force option studies, often referred to as non-lethal or less-than lethal “weapons,” is whether there are appropriate alternatives to lethal force in order to mini...

Realistic training of health personnel for the resuscitation of military casualties is problematic. There are few opportunities for personnel to obtain the necessary experience unless working in a busy emergency or trauma environment. Even so, the specific nature of military trauma means that many aspects of casualty management may not be adequately covered in the civilian domain. This paper di...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) may be a global power economically but its military lacks force projection beyond the Asia Pacific region. Its traditional military hardware is one to three generations behind the US and Russia. In light of these deficiencies it is probable that cyber warfare will provide China with an asymmetric advantage to deter aggression from stronger military powers as...

Abstract The term “military” within the Nigerian context tends to be a misnomer for Army, with Navy and Air Force often at scholarship margins. This article presents corrective: it shifts emphasis from Army historical discourse on politics its impact military in Nigeria. paper instead examines Cold War political origins of ( NAF ) as an under-researched service branch military. In 1962, after t...

Improving the quality of military operations is a driving force for many of the advances in soft and hard technology development. Examples are the development of the aircraft, nuclear power, computer, semiconductor, internet and the space communication and earth observing industries (Ruttan, 2006). Military operations both help develop new industries and also benefit from these industries. Rece...

This chapter addresses the third homeland security task area—the continuity of military operations in the United States, its territories, and its possessions. As distinct from the COG operations, discussed in Chapter Five, this task area of homeland security consists of the continuity of military operations, including • force protection, primarily for deploying units; • critical infrastructure ...

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...