From the 1960s to the 1980s stopping Communist-backed insurgents was an important part of American strategy, so counterinsurgency was an important mission for the US military, particularly the Army. Even when most of the Army turned its attention to large-scale warfighting and the operational art following Vietnam, special operation forces preserved some degree of capability. In the 1980s Ameri...

The present paper reports on a media effects research experiment in which six groups of participants were asked to read and evaluate differently framed news articles about two scenarios: a Palestinian attack on Israel and an Israeli military operation against Palestinians. The experimental results show that media peace frames of violent events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are generally r...

S THE United States military looks to the future, two themes dominate most projections. The first is ad ­ vanced technology. Underwritten by A the microchip, the technologies of war are changing rapidly. Weapons with microprecision accuracy, supercomputers linked by unlimited bandwidth, platforms providing continuous sur ­ veillance of practically any spot on the digitally mapped earth—all are ...

to General Stanley McChrystal around the time he took charge of the conflict in Afghanistan depicted a mass of interests and threats, a New York Times article reported. It included topics such as “tribal governance,” “infrastructure services and economy,” and “military tactical strategies” among many others, all tied together with a chaotic web of arrows that looked as orderly as a bowl of spag...

BACKGROUND The recent period of instability and conflict in parts of the world has exposed a new generation of Australian service members to conflict and its associated traumas. OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to assist general practitioners (GPs) in engaging with younger veterans who have served in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) since 1990 and acquired health problems as a result of...