Civilian Casualties and Public Support for Military Action: Experimental Evidence

How will military/civilian coordination work for reception of mass casualties from overseas?

INTRODUCTION In Maryland, there have been no military/civilian training exercises of the Medical Mutual Aid Agreement for >20 years. The aims of this paper are to describe the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), to coordinate military and civilian medical mutual aid in response to arrival of overseas mass casualties, and to evaluate the mass-casualty reception and bed "surge" capacity of M...

Wartime estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties

Challenges exist when making reliable and valid estimates of civilian mortality due to war. This article first discusses a framework used to examine war’s impact on civilians and then considers challenges common to each statistical approach taken to estimate civilian casualties. It examines the different approaches that have been used to estimate civilian casualties associated with the recent f...

Military and civilian media coverage of suicide.

Military suicide has increased over the past decade and reports of Service Member and Veteran suicides receive media attention. Some methods of reporting suicide appear to cause a "media contagion" effect, potentially increasing suicide. This effect is explored in relation to media reports of both military and civilian suicides. To reduce possible contagion, recommendations for media reporting ...

The war in Iraq: civilian casualties, political responsibilities.

Free electron lasers: scientific challenge for military and civilian development

Both classified and unclassified experiments throughout the world, most recently at France's Orsay Laboratory for the Utilization of Electromagnetic Radiation, show that the en­ ergy of high-quality electron beams can be directly converted to laser radiation. Theoretical and computer studies based on these experi­ ments indicate that this conversion of "free electron" energy into laser beam ene...