In recent years, hydroforming process has been applied in different industries such as aerospace, automotive and military industries due to its advantages, such as high dimensional accuracy, capability of forming complicated parts and high drawing ratio. Hydrodynamic deep drawing with radial pressure is one type of hydroforming process. In this paper, forming of cylindrical cups in hydrodynamic...

Janaury-February 2013  MILITARY REVIEW Colonel John F. Hussey commands the 3rd Brigade CA/MISO. He served in Operation Desert Storm and Joint Endeavor in Bosnia. In 2005, he commanded the 306th Military Police Battalion at the Abu Ghraib Prison and served a subsequent tour in Iraq with a joint task force from Special Operations Command. He holds a B.A. from Iona College and three master’s degr...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders and injuries are common causes of morbidity and loss of active, physically demanding training days in military populations. We evaluated the incidence, diagnosis, and risk factors of knee disorders and injuries in male Finnish military conscripts. METHODS The study population comprised 5 cohorts of 1000 men performing their military service, classified acc...

Unmanned Military Vehicles (UMVs) are enablers of military capability with clear endorsement at the highest level. Many NATO Nations have active programmes to develop and integrate UMV systems into the front line military force mix. UMVs are most commonly characterised as dealing well with 3D tasks – dull, dirty and dangerous. They are used extensively in intelligence, surveillance and reconnai...

the second half of the third hijri century, coinciding with the reign of three caliphs, al-mu’tamid (256-79 ah), al-mu’tadhid (279-89 ah), and al-muktafi (289-95 ah), abbasids restored their authority and renewed their organization. this reform process which was began by abu ahmad al-muwaffaq (d. 278 ah) and reached its climax at the time of abu al-abbas al-mu’tadhid stood between two decline p...

although the shelling and bombing against the residential areas have been prohibited in the international law, the iraqi regime used these tools frequently to advance its military and political strategy. these attacks were escalated after the kheibar operation. this article considers the definitions and concepts of the war of the cities and then studies the trend of this war during the iran-ira...

The questions of identity, oil exploration and development of social infrastructure resulted in serious security challenges in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Security problems worsened with the proliferation of ethnic militia groups known in the media as ‘militants,’ ‘hoodlums,’ ‘terrorists,’ ‘thieves,’ etc. In the last five years, armed resistance further degenerated into serious violence,...

T he United States cannot conduct an eff ective counterterrorism campaign against al Qa’ida or other terrorist groups without understanding how such groups end. While it is clear that U.S. policymakers will need to turn to a range of policy instruments to conduct such campaigns—including careful police and intelligence work, military force, political negotiations, and economic sanctions—what is...

During the past decade, the United States military has supported continuous deployments of forces around the world, often on very short notice and for prolonged duration, to meet the needs of a wide range of peacekeeping and humanitarian missions or major contingency operations. These deployments have come from a smaller force based closer to home. The pattern of varied and fast-breaking region...