NATO MSG-085 was chartered to "Investigate approaches for the deployment of Coalition BML capabilities complementing existing operational C2 system exchange mechanisms." A recognized capability needed to achieve this is a functional NATO Operations Order (OPORD) for the Battle Management Language (BML). GMU has developed a schema for a NATO OPORD, based on our earlier work with an Army OPORD fo...

Multipartner research, development and innovation (RD&I) projects are increasingly used to achieve complex goals keep pace with today's technological imperatives. The involvement of both competing noncompeting partners increases the complexity relationships poses a challenge outcomes such projects. Therefore, right choice is particularly important in this context. Although previous research has...

This paper makes the case that a Pluriversal Social Design should be desire-based. It suggests creation of meaningful social change requires moving focus design processes from needs to agentic desires. The author understands desire as creative impulse towards human flourishing. In design, current emphasis on designers continually reproduce Eurocentric model life, hindering genuine alternatives....

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...

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

The article analyzes two concepts of the USSR’s policy towards its allies in Eastern Europe — “Brezhnev doctrine” and “Gorbachev doctrine”. Relying on declassified documents Politburo, author shows that these “doctrines” were direct opposites, their implementation led to different consequences. justification right intervene for sake saving socialism was substantiated 1968, but origin dates end ...