The military gates to US citizenship: Latina/o “aliens and non-citizen nationals” and military work

AbstractThis paper investigates four questions related to ethical issues associated with the involvement of engineers and scientists in 'military work', including the influence of ethical values and beliefs, the role of gendered perspectives and moves beyond the purely technical. It fits strongly into a human (and planet)-centred systems perspective and extends my previous AI and Society papers on othering and narrative ethics, and ethics and social responsibility. It has two main contributions. The first involves an analysis of the literature through the application of different ethical theories and the application of gendered analysis to discussion of masculinities in engineering and the military. The second is a survey of scientists and engineers to investigate their opinions and experiences. The conclusions draw together the results of these two contributions to provide preliminary responses to the four questions and include a series of recommendations covering education and training, ethical approval of work not involving human participants or animals, the need for organisational support, approaches covering wider perspectives and the encouragement of individual ethical commitment.

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Metodologie integrate per la conoscenza, la tutela e la rappresentazione dell’architettura militare storica. Sistemi costruttivi e percorsi voltati lungo i bastioni occidentali di Cagliari (Sardegna, Italia)

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10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11378 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Andrea Pirinu ◽

Vincenzo Bagnolo ◽

Raffaele Argiolas ◽

Marco Utzeri

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Geophysical Methods ◽

Limited Area ◽

Integrated Method ◽

Military Engineer ◽

Subsequent Investigation ◽

Construction Techniques ◽

Architectural Survey ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

Integrated methodologies for the knowledge, representation and protection of historical military architecture. Construction systems and vaulted paths along the western bastions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy)The integrated method is been applied in the meet point between the curtain of Santa Chiara and the curtain of de Cardona, in a limited area of the ancient walls of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). The sector consists of a bastion called “curtain of Santa Chiara” designed in 1575 and realized in the period 1575-1578 by the military engineer Giorgio Paleari and the “curtain of de Cardona”, a military work commissioned by the Viceroy in the 1930s of the same century and interested by modification until the seventeenth century. The archive documents offer a lot of informations on the presence of gunboats and vaulted passages designed and built in this area during this period. This source –accompanied by an architectural survey of the existing military work and the knowledge of the construction techniques used at the time and indicated in the military treaties– may direct a subsequent investigation with geophysical methods. To this aim, a first graphic representation of the study area in the sixteenth century is proposed.

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Professional mobility of the future officer: to the formulation of the development problem

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202111300080 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 113 ◽

pp. 00080

Author(s):

T.P. Skripkina ◽

D.Yu. Naumov ◽

I.S. Melentyev

Keyword(s):

Military Service ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Horizontal Layer ◽

Rapid Adaptation ◽

The Social ◽

Professional Mobility ◽

The Future ◽

Scientific Results ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

In modern psychological and pedagogical studies, social and professional mobility is rarely correlated with the performance of military service duties. This circumstance is dictated by the ideas about the uniformity and legal «regulation» of military-service relations. The authors substantiate the need for the development of professional mobility, both on the vertical and on the horizontal layer, since the variety of duties performed by officers in the course of military work and the presence of various military positions to which he can be appointed, requires rapid adaptation to changing conditions of the social environment. The novelty of the research is that: the scientific results of the analysis of the structure of professional mobility of future officers are presented; the concept of «professional mobility of the future officer» is concretized based on the features of solving professional tasks by officers in the military; the conditions and means of developing the professional mobility of future officers are established and proposed.

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Emirati Parents’ Attitudes toward the Military and National Service in the United Arab Emirates

Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies ◽

10.24203/ajhss.v9i6.6802 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Hwee Ling Lim ◽

Abdelaziz Khalid Almaeeni ◽

Abdalla Khalid Almaeeni ◽

Ahmed Alzaabi

Keyword(s):

Work Environment ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Parental Attitudes ◽

Armed Forces ◽

National Service ◽

Military Career ◽

Workplace Conditions ◽

Group Interviews ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

Compulsory national service for male citizens presents the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces with an opportunity to recruit future military officers. Research showed that parental attitudes towards the military, manifested through their communication with youths, are likely to influence youths’ decision on a military career. Hence this study examined the attitudes of Emirati parents on the UAE military and national service; particularly parental perceptions of the military work environment; support of a military career for their children; and concerns about national service. Surveys, individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 59 Emirati parents. It found that most participants held the positive view that the military work environment helps attainment of professional goals but were uncertain about personal goals and workplace conditions. Also, more participants were supportive of a military career for sons than daughters. It also identified the basis for parental confidence about enlistment as patriotism and development of positive character traits but main concerns were the exposure to harsh training conditions and threat to life during enlistment. Recommendations were provided for better engagement by the UAE military with Emirati parents and the community.

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The Importance of Developing The Writing Skill in The Military

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION ◽

10.1515/kbo-2017-0140 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 343-348

Author(s):

Georgeta Obilişteanu ◽

Brânduşa-Oana Niculescu

Keyword(s):

Language Skills ◽

Military Officers ◽

Military Organizations ◽

Major Activity ◽

Writing Skill ◽

Written Form ◽

Important Quality ◽

The Military ◽

Military Work

Abstract The development of the four language skills has always been hard work for teachers as well as for students, the writing skill being a particularly challenging one. Writing in English for achieving various goals is certainly a major activity of all civilian and military higher education institutions throughout the world. In their daily activities, army leaders convey their intent, ideas, purpose and vision to superior echelons, peers and subordinates in oral or written form. Military officers perform many of their duties by means of intelligible, concise, coherent, and meaningful written messages. The need for writing correctly is an absolutely indispensable skill in itself. Therefore, teachers working in the military system of education should be concerned with developing, improving and practising the writing skill which is an important quality of leadership. Military work is very complex, the military system being based on officers’ ability to lead and manage military organizations. The paper focuses on the specific characteristics of military writing and provides some formats, with the respective writing tasks and assignments.

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Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s1548450500005862 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 29-33

Author(s):

Darren Kew

Keyword(s):

Transition Program ◽

The Political ◽

High Stakes ◽

Political Class ◽

Soccer Match ◽

The Public ◽

The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

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