Trimming Military Judisdiction: An Unrealistic Solution to Reforming Military Justice

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...

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...

Military Hygiene

Military Hygiene

This is a new, revised and enlarged edition of Major Caldwell's well-known book on Military Hygiene. It gives a good account of those principles of sanitation which most nearly affect the soldier in his eveiy-day life, whether at home, abroad or in the field. Though primarily written for medical officers of his own Corps it is also hoped that it will be useful to officers of other branches of t...

Military Modeling

The military has always been a very heavy user and innovative developer of modeling techniques and technologies. The nature of military missions requires that they rehearse missions in order to better understand their complex interactions and to estimate outcomes. This need has led them to apply modeling and simulation to a number of different activities over the last 300 years. In this chapter...