Situation awareness for ground combat vehicles is being actively developed by the U.S. Army to enable soldiers and commanders to have a better understanding of their environments and hence allow them to fight smarter. The control of hit avoidance assets (sensors and countermeasures) by the Commander‟s Decision Aid (CDA) can also benefit from situation awareness data, either from offboard report...

THE JOINT surveillance and target attack radar system (JSTARS) promises to revolutionize how US forces conduct conventional warfare. Before the development of JSTARS, US forces de­ pended on close operations to defeat an enemy army. Because airpower’s ability to destroy an enemy’s mo­ bile ground forces was severely limited, especially during darkness and bad weather, interdiction proved import...

On the morning of July 1st 1916, after five days of intense artillery bombardment, the British Fourth Army under General Sir Henry Rawlinson, with a ration strength of 519,324 men, supported by two divisions of the Third Army, under General Sir Edward Allenby, advanced into what was to be known hereafter as the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within the first 60 minutes of that attack, th...

To the Editor: On July 27, 2011, I attended the casing of the colors of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and on August 27, the last patient was transferred from that closing facility to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The new, integrated facility became known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on September 15.1 As one who spent about o...

The National Service Act came into force at the beginning of 1949 and all able bodied men were liable to be called-up. The majority went into the army, fewer into the RAF and the smallest number into the Royal Navy. The last intake was in 1960. At that time they served for two years. I was resigned to doing National Service after completing five-years training to be a dentist followed by a hous...

Recent mass spectrometry maps of the human interactome independently support the existence of a large multiprotein complex, dubbed "Commander." Broadly conserved across animals and ubiquitously expressed in nearly every human cell type examined thus far, Commander likely plays a fundamental cellular function, akin to other ubiquitous machines involved in expression, proteostasis, and traffickin...

Absence: Congress, Members (art. 1, § 5, cl. 1) ...................................... 1361.16 Vice President, Senate (art. 1, § 3, cl. 5) ................................. 1361.11 Accused, rights of (amdt. 6) ............................................................ 1376 Actions: Common law (amdt. 7) ............................................................. 1377 Judicial Power (art. 3, ...

This article investigates the challenges of application international law in a domestic setting as depicted ongoing trial Thomas Kwoyelo. Kwoyelo, former child soldier and commander Lord's Resistance Army, is being prosecuted for commission inter alia murder, kidnapping with intent to pillaging, all war crimes against humanity under International Humanitarian Law, Customary Law Penal Code Act U...

Abstract The US Army war crimes trials held in Manila from 1945 to 1947 prosecuted around 200 Japanese military personnel for committed against prisoners of and Filipino non-combatants. defendants attempted argue, with little success, that the defence superior orders justified their actions. General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander Allies Pacific or SCAP) was adamant would not serve excuse ...