background: in most armies, clothes, equipment and weapons are designed according to the physical characteristics and anthropometric data of soldiers. objective: to study the anthropometric characteristics of iranian army force and their changes over recent years. methods: 12 635 iranian military personnel aged between 18 and 30 years with tenure of <10 years who were normally engaged in educat...

1 Preclinical Experiment Center, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China 2 Department of Physiology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China 3 Center of clinical aviation medicine, General Hospital of Air Force, Beijing, China 4 Department of Pharmacology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China 5 Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fo...

Title of Document: DOES PROCESS MATTER IN MILITARY SENTENCING? A STUDY OF THE TRIAL PENALTY IN AIR FORCE COURTS-MARTIAL Patricia D. Breen, Master of Arts, 2008 Directed by: Assistant Professor Brian D. Johnson Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Prior sentencing research has largely ignored the military justice system even though over two million people are subject to its jurisdictio...

since the victory of the islamic revolution in 1979 shiite islam has been adopted as state ideology in iran. this paper is concerned with the impact of islam on iranian strategic culture. more specifically, it examines the impact of islam on the manner iran employs force in self-defense. to shed light on the influence of ideology, the article has relied heavily on ayatollah khomeini&apos;s spee...

Wireless sensor networks can be used by the military for a number of purposes such as monitoring militant activity in remote areas and force protection. Being equipped with appropriate sensors these networks can enable detection of enemy movement, identification of enemy force and analysis of their movement and progress. The focus of this article is on the military requirements for flexible wir...

Who now reads Norman Dixon’s The Psychology of Military Incompetence, published 40 years ago, and does it matter ? Historical examples of military incompetence – sometimes referred to as ‘military blunders’ or in the case of Elliot Cohen and John Gooch, 1 as “military misfortunes” or failures – are legion : the failure of the Royal Navy to defeat the German High Seas fleet at Jutland in 1916 – ...

Since Biblical times, heat injuries have been a major focus of military medical personnel. Heat illness accounts for considerable morbidity during recruit training and remains a common cause of preventable nontraumatic exertional death in the United States military. This brief report describes current regulations used by Army, Air Force, and Navy medical personnel to return active duty warfight...