Rates of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been reported to be higher among US military veterans, who currently number more than 21 million, but the causal factor(s) has not been identified. We conducted a review to examine the weight of evidence for associations between military service, deployments, and exposures and ALS etiology and survival. Thirty articles or abstracts published thr...

Information Operations (IO) has become a primary war fighting capability and is now considered a military core competency. The military Services are establishing IO as a military career field equivalent to other war fighting fields and they are developing supporting education and training programs to create a pipeline of trained and experienced information operations warriors. Transforming doct...

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...

th century, Hans Delbrück described war in terms of annihilation and exhaustion.1 A century later, after the advent of airplanes, access to space, computers, nuclear weapons, computers, and the information revolution, strategists introduced a new paradigm, effects-based operations. This concept suggests a new national objective: control of an enemy. Control is a contemporary, efficient, and hum...

Congested military spectrum means that next generation communication systems will have to achieve much greater spectral efficiency than their predecessors. In this paper, we consider various examples of approaches that increase the overall spectral efficiency of a communication system. Advanced signal processing techniques provide significant increases in throughput, replacing legacy VHF voice ...

The primary concern of this research is to reassess the British foreign policy, focusing on its military withdrawal in 1971 from the Persian Gulf and its return in 2014. The Persian Gulf, as a region of geo-strategic importance, has always been at the center of attention for the UK and other great world powers. This study will therefore attempt to answer the following question: what are the rea...