The effective and sustainable environmental performance of a business is a result of various factors and most important the integrated outcome of the environmental management. Likewise, the integration of environmental protection into the armed forces functions has also gain interest for the military sector internationally. Therefore, the environmental management system (EMS) is recognized as o...

The Kosovo war of 1999 brought the checkered legacies of Russian and Western geopolitics back to the forefront of international relations. Central to the discussions of the Balkans is its century-old legacy as a Shatterbelt or Crush Zone. Though not identified by Saul Cohen as a Shatterbelt during the Cold War, the region is now located where the maritime (Western) and land power (Russian) geos...

The successful operation of NATO missions requires the effective and secure sharing of information among coalition partners and external organizations, while avoiding the disclosure of sensitive information to unauthorized users. To resolve the conflict between confidentiality and availability in a dynamic coalition and network environment while being able to dynamically respond to changes in p...

Emergence of new geopolitical affairs in the important and sensitive places of the world, like the Middle East, Balkan, Central Asia (Caucasus zone) and… has caused emergence of a new trend of so called cold war with variables like the expansion of NATO to the East, the U.S. missile Defense shield, Georgia’s events, the prevalent problems of the Middle East, those of Pakistan and Afghanistan, o...

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NATO has identified Web services standards as a key enabler for interoperability between the different military systems of the various NATO nations. Interoperability is required on several levels: Network hardware compatibility (NATO has workgroups that are addressing this), network protocol compatibility (IP has been chosen by NATO), middleware compatibility, and so on. In this paper, we addre...

We discuss the application of random walks to generating a random basis of a totally unimodular matrix and to solving a linear program with such a constraint matrix. We also derive polynomial upper bounds on the combinatorial diameter of an associated polyhedron. •Supported by NATO grant RG0088/89 tSupported by NSF grants CCR-8900112, CCR-9024935 and NATO grant RG0088/89