Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti’nin (ÇHC) ekonomik, teknolojik ve siyasi alanlarında yükselişi, Soğuk Savaş’ın sona ermesinden sonra, Atlantik bloğuna yönelen en ciddi sistemik meydan okumadır. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (ABD) Başkanı Donald Trump döneminde ÇHC’nin bu yükselişine yönelik önlemler, Trump’ın NATO ittifakına şüpheci tavrı nedeniyle tek taraflı olarak kalmıştır. Joe Biden’ın ABD başkanlığına...

NATO war medical doctrine was applied in the war in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, due to rather specific martial and organizational circumstances, the doctrine had to be modified. sometimes substantially. A medical team from the war hospital in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina describes their work with respect to the four-echelon NATO doctrine. The team covered a relatively large and a...

This article presents a simple cooperative game theory representation of alliance formation and expansion to counter a conventional threat along the allies’ borders. Mutual defense gains, derived from allying, arise from interior borders that no longer require protection. Spatial and locational attributes of the allies are crucial when identifying the gains from mutual defense and the distribut...

Σ k Π k DIFFm(Σ p k ) coDIFFm(Σ p k ) P Σ p k m-tt P Σ p k m+1-tt BH(Σ k ) Supported in part by grants NSF-CCR-9322513, NSF-INT-9513368/DAAD-315-PRO-fo-ab, and NSF-INT9815095/DAAD-315-PPP-gü-ab, and a NATO Postdoctoral Science Fellowship from the DAAD’s “Gemeinsames Hochschulsonderprogramm III von Bund und Ländern” program. This report combines and extends each of technical reports corr-cs.CC/9...

BACKGROUND Selective nonoperative management of combat-related blunt splenic injury (BSI) is controversial. We evaluated the impact of the November 2008 blunt abdominal trauma clinical practice guideline that permitted selective nonoperative management of some patients with radiological suggestion of hemoperitoneum on implementation of nonoperative management (NOM) of splenic injury in austere ...

NATO countries spend billions of dollars a year on electromagnetic security, of which the Tempest shielding of personal computers, workstations and peripherals is a large component. In the absence of a capable motivated opponent such as the former Soviet Union, this burden on both traditional and new members is increasingly difficult to justify. As a result, many systems at a medium level of se...

The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) and the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) have since 2005 had activities to interface military command and control (C2) systems with simulation systems. This paper describes a new and highly promising way to combine NATO partners’ C2 systems and simulation systems into a system of systems that is capable of supporting mi...

Let T1 denote the first passage time to 1 of a standard Brownian motion. It is well known that as λ → ∞, P{T1 > λ} ∼ cλ−1/2, where c = (2/π). The goal of this note is to establish a capacitarian version of this result. Namely, we will prove the existence of positive and finite constants K1 and K2 such that for all λ > e, K1λ −1/2 ≤ Cap{T1 > λ} ≤ K2λ−1/2 log(λ) · log log(λ), where ‘log’ denotes ...

Computer networks have become critical to NATO operations. Much of NATO's computer traffic runs over civilian networks, and NATO computers are accessible to a wide variety of malicious activities. The scale of the network traffic involved makes monitoring and analysis difficult, and the rapid deployment of computer systems to new areas places additional stresses on operators and analysts. We ha...