BACKGROUND Suicide risk among U.S. military personnel has been increasing over the past decade. Fluid vulnerability theory (FVT; Rudd, 2006) posits that acute suicidal episodes increase in severity when trait-based (e.g., shame) and state-based (e.g., hopelessness) risk factors interact, especially among individuals who have been previously suicidal. In contrast, trait-based protective factors ...

The Military Analogical Reasoning System (MARS) is a performance support system and decision aid for commanders in Tactical Operations Centers. MARS enhances and supports the innate human ability for using stories to reason about tactical goals, plans, situations, and outcomes. The system operates by comparing many instances of stored tactical stories, determining which have analogous situation...

President Clinton took office in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the international security environment. Reacting to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the administration’s new civilian leaders at the Pentagon undertook a “Bottom-Up Review” of U.S. military requirements to set the guidelines for the administration’s $1.3trillion, five-year defense program. Despite its p...

he process of digitising and networking the modern military is as tortuous as was the case in industry a decade ago, with added complexities arising from technological needs unique to the military. As has been observed in the industry framework, digitisation and networking can produce large gains in productivity, and the same is true for military environments; but used as a force multiplier and...

The article examines the historical and legal aspect of origin development militarypolitical bodies, traces changes in content their functioning during February October revolutions, Civil (1917–1922) Great Patriotic Wars (1941–1945), post-war post-Soviet stages national history. conducted analysis current regulatory documents Ministry Defense Russian Federation, Internal Affairs Russia, Guard, ...

The monograph shows that in addition to the material factor, spiritual factor influences outcome of world war. interdisciplinarity research and introduction new terms are noteworthy. One them is national military consciousness as an extremely important complex component consciousness, which a leading wars. unity ruler people through system contradictions between society army driving force for d...