Understanding Civil War Violence through Military Intelligence: Mining Civilian Targeting Records from the Vietnam War

Air Medical Transport

The history of air medical transport (AMT) dates to before World War I, when the French evacuated soldiers from Serbia using airplanes as ambulances as early as 1915. The first recorded use of a U.S. military air ambulance was in 1918 when an airplane was converted to accommodate a litter patient in the rear cockpit. During World War II, more than 1.1 million sick and wounded soldiers were airl...

Changes in the distribution of Navy and Marine Corps casualties from World War I through the Vietnam conflict.

Millitary Psychotherapy and Psychological Wounds of War

SUMMARY After a short reference to Iran-Iraq war as a motivating factor for the present study, the issues of battle stress and psychological wounds of war ar discuused. Reactions of the world armies 10 psychological breakdown of soldiers, military psychotherapy, therapy in combat zone and its developmental process through Civil war, Crimean war, first and Second world wars, Korean and Vietnam ...

Rivalry and Revenge: Making Sense of Violence against Civilians in Conventional Civil Wars

Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized warrelated factors over political ones. For example, factors such as control of territory or characteristics of the armed groups have been prioritized at the expense of factors such as ideological alignments or local political competition. In this paper, I argue that the emphasis on war-related factors is conditioned by th...

The Dynamies of Mass Killings: Testing Time-Series Models of One-Sided Violence in the Bosnian Civil War

Many observers contend that wartime civilian victimization is an instrument of political leaders to achieve a particular goal. This article examines whether retaliation for similar acts by the other side, the developments on the battlefield, or the behavior of international actors accounts for the ups and downs of tbis so-called one-sided violen ce. Using information from the Konstanz One-Sided...