Geographers have expanded notions of the carceral, military and war far beyond conventional ideas prison, armed forces nation state conflict, thus situating spaces confinement, surveillance monitoring in deep histories violence. Nevertheless, we argue that renewed attention to these ‘conventional’ institutions reveals unanswered questions about prisons during after war, conversion bases, deploy...

Battle Management Language (BML) is defined as an unambiguous language to command and control forces and equipment conducting military operations and to provide for situational awareness and a shared, common operational picture. BML is being designed as a standard representation of a "digitized commander's intent" to be used for real troops, for simulated troops, and for future robotic forces. ...

between military and community population Jung Yeon Heo, MD; Kang-Won Choe, MD; Hye Won Jeong, MD; ChangGyo Yoon, MD; Kyo Hyun Kim, MD; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju-si, South Korea; Department of Internal Medicine, The Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Sungnam-si, South Korea; Department of Preventive Medicine, Arm...

Many future military operations are expected to occur in urban environments. These complex, 3D battlefields are extremely demanding and introduce many challenges to the dismounted warfighter. These include limited visibility, lack of familiarity with the environment, sniper threats, concealment of enemy forces, ineffective communications, and a general problem of locating and identifying enemy ...

Studies of completed suicide by history of military service have produced inconsistent findings; no representative population-based study has compared the risk of nonfatal suicidal behavior among veterans with risk among nonveterans. The objective of this study was to examine whether male veterans of the U.S. military are at heightened risk of suicidal ideation, compared with males who never se...

In the current world scenario, we witness more military forces involved in peace support (PSOs) and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations and less in conventional warfare. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UN DPKO) website indicates that the post-Cold War decades have seen a big jump in the number of such operations worldwide. Of the 60 operations...

An introduction to the special issue Gender and Canadian Armed Forces: Does Change Mean Feminist Progress? It situates within significant gendered changes that have occurred Forces over past two decades. The highlights importance of continued feminist critique of, engagement with, military achieve progress.

French military personnel are subject to a compulsory vaccination schedule. The aim of this study was to describe vaccine adverse events (VAE) reported from 2002 to 2010 in armed forces. VAE are routinely surveyed by the military Centre for epidemiology and public health. For each case, military practitioners fill a notification form, providing patient characteristics, clinical information and ...

The effects-based operations (EBO) concept has been proposed as an approach to maximizing efficiency and minimizing wasted effort in the pursuit of goals, military or otherwise. While not a new idea, it is an attempt to institutionalize the heretofore-intuitive approaches that many military commanders have exercised during periods of war. It has also arisen due to the complex nature of modern c...

This article introduces the concept of organizational ambidexterity and explains its value to military planning and problem-solving from the tactical to strategic levels. I 2005, as the US military waged numerous armed conflicts around the world, Army Chief of Staff General Peter J. Schoomaker was confronted with a serious troop shortage. In an interview with Time, he explained not only how he ...