Review of Applied Methodologies and Proposals Regarding Social Responsibility in the Military Forces

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
Angie Melissa Morales Avella ◽  
Anny Astrid Espitia Cubillos ◽  
Jairo Andrés Agudelo Calderón
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals The Convergence of Military Conduct and Policing in Israeli-Controlled Territories

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Nir Gazit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States in May 2020 and the subsequent turmoil, as well as the violence against migrants on the US-Mexican border, have drawn major public and media attention to the phenomenon of police brutality (see, e.g., Levin 2020; Misra 2018; Taub 2020), which is often labeled as ‘militarization of police’. At the same time, in recent years military forces have been increasingly involved in policing missions in civilian environments, both domestically (see, e.g., Kanno-Youngs 2020; Schrader 2020; Shinkman 2020) and abroad. The convergence of military conduct and policing raises intriguing questions regarding the impact of these tendencies on the military and the police, as well as on their legitimacy.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of the Use of Telemedicine in the Military Forces Worldwide

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Mohammadi ◽  
Zeinab Tabanejad ◽  
Shahabeddin Abhari ◽  
Behnam Honarvar ◽  
Mina Lazem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Military Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Military

Context: Considering the pivotal role of telemedicine in providing healthcare services for remote areas, some of the military medical centers, especially in developed countries, use different types of telemedicine programs. Objectives: The present study aimed at identifying the implemented telemedicine projects in military medicine worldwide and introducing their features. Evidence Acquisition: The current systematic review was performed in 2018. PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Web of Science databases were searched for articles published from 2014 to 2018 by a combination of related keywords, and the related original articles were then selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were collected by a data extraction form, and then the data were summarized and reported based on the study objectives. Results: Of the 173 articles retrieved from the first round of search, 12 were included in the study; five (41.66%) studies had used the synchronous (real-time telemedicine) method. The United States, with nine studies, had the highest number of projects in military telemedicine. Most studies (n = 7) were performed on tele-psychology and the application of telemedicine in psychology. All selected studies reported the positive effects of telemedicine on providing healthcare for military forces. Conclusions: The proper utilization of telemedicine equipment is effective in saving time for both patients and healthcare providers, reducing costs, supporting in natural disasters, and satisfying patients with military medicine. To achieve telemedicine program objectives, they should be set precisely. Considering the importance of timely healthcare services, it is suggested to utilize synchronous methods and tools such as video conferencing.

scholarly journals Coup Culture: The Military and the Failure of Constitutionalism in Fiji

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 589
Author(s):  
Sarah Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Military Power ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Island State ◽  
The Military

Fiji's Interim Military Government has now been in power for nearly five years. Since that time elections have been promised for 2014, but whether those elections will take place, or how they will be carried out in practice, remains to be seen. This paper is a focus on the checks and balances on the Military Forces in Fiji, and how those could be adapted to restrict military power in the island state. 

scholarly journals Brief analysis of foreign experience in arrangement of purchasing weapons and military equipment

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (398) ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Oleg Savchenko ◽  
◽  
Valery Polovinkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Purpose ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Centralized Purchasing ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Military

for weapons, military and special-purpose equipment, supplies and services to support military forces of five states, which are world leaders in the military field: USA, UK, France, Germany and China. A special emphasis is made on shipbuilding. Materials and methods. The review is based on modern strategic documents and legislative acts regulating the procurement activities of major state military agencies. Main results. A detailed consideration is given to specific procurement systems operating in foreign countries, similar features and differences are identified, national specifics are mentioned. Recommendations are given regarding lessons to be learned by Russian military departments. Conclusions. Based on the foreign experience it is found advisable to combine centralized purchasing of major military products and equipment and decentralized procurement of some general-purpose items.

scholarly journals Food Supply and Nutrition in the Bulgarian Army

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
Pavlin Glushkov
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Material ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Nutritional Property ◽  
National Training ◽  
The Military

Abstract The main tasks of food logistics in the military formations are to provide the personnel with food, material and nutritional property, to maintain and refresh the stocks, as well as organize the nutrition of the personnel in peacetime and wartime according to the current nutrition norms. It should be noted that food supply and the organization of nutrition bear its specific characteristics depending on the place where it is carried out and the force of the factors that influence it. The present study focuses on the organization of nutrition in the stage of peacetime national training of military forces.

Autonomous Systems in a Military Context (Part 2)

2019 ◽  
pp. 433-451
Author(s):  
Jai Galliott ◽  
Tim McFarland
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Law Of Armed Conflict ◽  
Collateral Effects ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

This is the second paper of two on the role of autonomy in the unmanned systems revolution currently underway and affecting military forces around the globe. In the last paper, the authors considered the implications of autonomy on the legal obligations of military forces and their ability to meet these obligations, primarily through a survey of the domestic law of a number of drone wielding nations and relevant international legal regimes, including the law of armed conflict, arms control law, international human rights law, and others. However, the impact of autonomy in the military context extends well beyond the law and also encompasses philosophy and morality. Therefore, this paper addresses perennial problems concerning autonomous systems and their impact on what justifies the initial resort to war, who may be legitimately targeted in warfare, the collateral effects of military weaponry and the methods of determining and dealing with violations of the laws of just war theory.

Policy analysis and decision making in the military forces:

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Paula Lorena Mora-Hernández ◽  
Juan David Gélvez-Ferreira ◽  
Michael Weintraub ◽  
Sebastián Bitar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Military

Human Performance Optimization

Head Strong ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Michael D. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Human Physiology ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Leader Development ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Military ◽  
Near Future

Budgetary constraints and emerging advances in weapons technology have resulted in a substantial reduction in the sizes of contemporary military forces. The US Army, at less than 500,000 soldiers, is a fraction of its size of a generation ago, yet the demands for it to deploy in a variety of missions around the globe have only increased. This chapter reviews current and emerging strategies that may aid in optimizing soldier performance. Developments in human physiology, genetics, nutrition, neurotechnology, sleep, noncognitive amplifiers, and leader development are described. Currently available strategies are identified, as are approaches to human performance optimization that are likely to emerge in the near future. Extrapolations of human performance optimization protocols to other contexts beyond the military are considered.

Why Military Organizations Are Cautious About Learning?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Hasselbladh ◽  
Karl Ydén
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organization ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts ◽  
Collective Sensemaking ◽  
The Military ◽  
Bureaucratic Organizations

This article argues that military organizations display a more rigorous form of collective sensemaking than ordinary bureaucratic organizations. Military organizing is predicated on the rigorous modes of thinking and acting that follow from the particular military propensity to impose order on chaos. This trait is antithetical to modern notions of “the learning organization,” in which exploring variety and experimenting and testing out unproven methods are central. We identify two sets of structural conditions that constitute the sociocognitive landscape of military organizations and discuss how the military logic of action might be enacted in different sociocultural contexts. Our framework is brought to bear on recent research on international military missions, and in the concluding section, we summarize our arguments and discuss their wider implications in terms of trade-offs between adaptability and other capabilities in the design of military forces.

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