This paper describes the development of computer simulation models by the Operational Analysis Element of the Air Warfare Centre to support Force Protection planning within the Royal Air Force. The paper illustrates both the application of rapid system development methodology to meet a military requirement, and provides a case study into how a model can develop using the Environmental Systems R...

From January 2003 to December 2011, over 50,000 service members were medically evacuated from the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation New Dawn (OND) theater of combat operations to a medical treatment facility outside of theater. During the period, the numbers and underlying causes of medical evacuations sharply varied in relation to the numbers of deployed service members and the natures o...

The assessment of military information systems is an art form that has evolved substantially since the mid-1970s.1 Until then, national security assessments generally neglected information system issues. Such systems were either assumed to be “perfect” (i.e., providing perfect information with no time delays), capable of no more than secondor third-order effects, or totally irrelevant. When the...

Much ink has been spilled about apprehensions in Israel and the West that Iran could develop nuclear weapons, prompting calls in American, Israeli, and now even Arab circles for the application of military force to stop the mullahs. Yet, there is another, more immediate nuclear-related danger to the Jewish state that has received far less attention: the possibility that Israel's adversaries cou...

Since 1999, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has conducted over 117 operations across nearly the full spectrum of so called ‘small wars’.[1] These operations have included domestic support tasks such as border protection and disaster response, regional offshore security and stability interventions and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HADR) operations, and contributions to combat opera...

Israeli counterinsurgency doctrine holds that the persistent use of credible threat and disproportionate military force results in repeated victories that eventually teach the enemy the futility of aggression. The doctrine thus endorses classical rational choice theory's claim that narrow cost-benefit calculations shape fixed action rationales. This paper assesses whether Israel's strategic pra...

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...