PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review focuses on development and maturation of the tactical evacuation and en route care capabilities of the military trauma system in Afghanistan and discusses hard-learned lessons that may have enduring relevance to civilian trauma systems. RECENT FINDINGS Implementation of an evidence-based, data-driven performance improvement programme in the tactical evacuation an...

The armed forces and the army are main elements of national power. Military readiness gives real significance to the geography, natural resources, and industrial power. Military elements of national power include military purposes, military doctrines, military strategies and policies (defensive and non-defensive), forces, training, command, military technology, weapons and equipment, military o...

Military strategists are increasingly recognizing that planned interventions sometimes fail to achieve their goals, especially in the long term, because planning is done with a limited view of possible outcomes rather than a whole-systems perspective. The systems modeling methodology of system dynamics is well-suited to address many of the dynamically complex problems that arise in the context ...

The current maintenance system of the national defense industry shall be schemed to complete and establish an integrated logistics support management system of the military aircraft commercial maintenance in the future, so as to provide a main information link system that carry out the military maintenance businesses. The methods of maintenance data collect and work orders release base on Maint...