Medical seminars: a new paradigm for SOF counterinsurgency medical programs.

Counterinsurgency, healthcare, and human nature: tapping into the hierarchy of needs.

Air Force Preventive Medicine's role in the war against terrorism: new missions for the global counterinsurgency.

Since 2005, the call for the military to conduct ?softer? missions, such as humanitarian assistance and partner training, has increased. These ?medical stability operations? are in fact to be given comparable priority to combat operations. Military leadership understands their the value of Medical Stability Operations across the range of military operations from shaping through postdisaster or ...

Notes on the establishment of the United States Army Special Warfare Center (Airborne) Surgeon's Office.

In the early 1960s, LTC Richard L. Coppedge, Medical Corps, expanded the functions of the Office of the Surgeon for the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He drew upon the then recent Special Forces experience in Laos and the beginnings of Special Forces experience in Vietnam to reorient the Special Forces medical mission from guerilla warfare to counterinsurgency. With impro...

Pretrauma Interventions in Force Health Protection: Introducing the "Left of Bang" Paradigm.

NATO SOF Transformation and the development of NATO SOF medical doctrine and policy.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Special Operations Forces (SOF) Coordination Center (NSCC) is a new NATO memorandum of understanding (MOU) organization that is effecting rapid advancement in NATO's ability to efficiently utilize SOF at the strategic/operational level. The NSCC's lines of development in communications information systems (CIS), education, training, and real life su...