This paper sets out to investigate military physicians’ perceptions and usage regarding a mobile medical information system during their military service in the Finnish Defence Forces. Data were gathered in September and December of 2005 by two semi-structured surveys. The military physicians (n=31) had positive perceptions of the mobile system, and have used it in their daily military training...

Child maltreatment in the United States has provoked considerable interest in recent years. Child abuse and neglect are prevalent in all parts of American society. Although children of military personnel experience maltreatment, little research has been completed that compares child abuse rates in the military with those for civilian populations. Studies that have assessed child abuse in the ar...

Why are Latin American politicians drawing the armed forces into politics and public security? What consequences does this democratically controlled re-militarisation have for civil–military relations? With a case study of Brazil, article introduces conceptual tool ‘negative convergence’: widespread acceptance increasing military's internal roles among political leaders, military elites society...

Terrorism is the greatest threat to national security and cannot be defeated by conventional military force alone. In critical areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkey, regular forces cannot reach these hostile/terrorist groups, the instigators of terrorism. These groups have a clear understanding of the relative ineffectiveness of counter-guerrilla operations and rely on guerrilla warfare to...

The military forces in the United States represent a unique culture that includes many subcultures within their own military society. Acculturation into the military often deemphasizes the influence of personal narrative and thereby establishes the primacy of military culture over personal cultural influences. The authors make the argument that military personnel need to further develop an unde...

Abstract Threats to national security are becoming more and diverse, factors emerging which we did not expect. In recent decades, have increasingly perceived extreme environmental events resulting from climate change as threats. This includes natural disasters related weather, and/or water (windstorms, precipitation, heat waves cold, wildfires, droughts,.). Military forces carrying out their op...

Q: Should the lmited States give Duarte's g(JIIemment military aid? A: Tht" political history of El Salvador ovt·r tht· last year and a half is tht· struAAJc of the civilian kadcrship 10 gain control over the military. The Salvadoran military has already rt'<.'dVl·d more military assis· tann· than had hc.·t·n given them in twenty years in order to mt"ct the ldtist threat. I hdkvt' this was a co...

OBJECTIVES We assessed socio-demographic and military factors associated with smoking among males in the UK Armed Forces; made comparisons with the general population; and, tested the hypothesis that smoking has declined in the Armed Forces. METHODS Using data from two cross-sectional studies (conducted in 1998 and 2004), we examined the patterns of smoking among regular male UK Service perso...