P1-89 Military populations, military diseases: the development of military epidemiology

Military Innovation and Military Culture

This article examines the significance of culture as a moderator of innovation, and criticizes monolithic accounts of military resistance to innovation. It then describes a dimension of military culture focused on the concept of the ideal combatant, and how that concept relates to innovation. Military culture can be improved by: (1) engineering the competitive context for innovation, and (2) cr...

Nanotechnology in Military Development

Military training and personality trait development: does the military make the man, or does the man make the military?

Military experience is an important turning point in a person's life and, consequently, is associated with important life outcomes. Using a large longitudinal sample of German males, we examined whether personality traits played a role during this period. Results indicated that personality traits prospectively predicted the decision to enter the military. People lower in agreeableness, neurotic...

Military medical revolution: military trauma system.

T development and advancement of trauma care has shown stepwise improvements for centuries owing to the interrelationship of civilian and military medical systems. With respect to trauma systems, the sophisticated civilian trauma system in the United States was born directly out of the successes and lessons learned from the Vietnam War. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) took the lead in ad...

Ontology Development for Military Applications

In order for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to become truly useful in high−level military applications it is necessary to identify, document, and integrate into automated systems the human knowledge that senior military professionals use to solve high−level problems. The skeletal structure for this work is provided through the development of an ontology. This paper presents brief overviews first ...