The Military Performance Team

Lebanon's Armed Forces and the Arab-Israeli War, 1948––49

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2005.34.2.024 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 24-41

Author(s):

Matthew Hughes

Keyword(s):

Armed Forces ◽

Detailed Examination ◽

Political Constraints ◽

Military Performance ◽

Irregular Forces ◽

History Approach ◽

The Military

In military histories of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Lebanon's role, however minor, is almost entirely missing. This article seeks to fill this gap with a detailed examination of the involvement in the war not only of Lebanon's army but also of the irregular forces——notably the Arab Liberation Army——operating separately from its territory. The analysis——which covers the military and political constraints affecting both actors, their military performance, and the implications of their performance——is located within the historiographical debate on the 1948 war, and more specifically within the context of the Israeli ““new history”” approach of debunking the David versus Goliath argument.

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Economics, Logistics, and (Human Resources) Management in Military Sciences

Handbook of Military Sciences ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-02866-4_67-1 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Joseph Soeters

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

Human Resources Management ◽

National Level ◽

Military Leadership ◽

Military Organization ◽

Resources Management ◽

Military Performance ◽

The Military ◽

Personnel Policies ◽

Real Action

AbstractThis chapters aims to introduce the section on economics, logistics, and (human resources) management in military sciences. The military is best known for its successes, or the lack thereof, on the battlefield. In this context, topics such as tactics, military leadership, and command and emotions like courage and persistence are often studied. Less well familiar is the idea that military success and defeat are highly dependent on the way the military organization has been structured, prepared, trained, and equipped before the real action starts. Similarly, it is underestimated how much military performance depends on financial means, logistics, and human resources during the action. The idea that economics, logistics, personnel policies, and management are only relevant in peacetime conditions is simply wrong. This chapter uses historical examples and insights from current management theory and research to make this clear, and, at the same time, introduces which topics will be reviewed in the other chapters of the section on management, economics and logistics. These issues play at the national level but certainly also in the international arena where the different allies and competitors meet.

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Indian Army and the First World War

10.1093/oso/9780199485659.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kaushik Roy

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

South Asia ◽

Mass Mobilization ◽

World War ◽

Military Performance ◽

British Rule ◽

The First World War ◽

Military Support ◽

The Military ◽

First World

Accustomed to conducting low-intensity warfare before 1914, the Indian Army learnt to engage in high-intensity conventional warfare during the course of World War I, thereby exhibiting a steep learning curve. Being the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia, the ‘brown warriors’ of the Raj functioned as an imperial fire brigade during the war. Studying the Indian Army as an institution during the war, Kaushik Roy delineates its social, cultural, and organizational aspects to understand its role in the scheme of British imperial projects. Focusing not just on ‘history from above’ but also ‘history from below’, Roy analyses the experiences of common soldiers and not just those of the high command. Moreover, since society, along with the army, was mobilized to provide military and non-military support, this volume sheds light on the repercussions of this mass mobilization on the structure of British rule in South Asia. Using rare archival materials, published autobiographies, and diaries, Roy’s work offers a holistic analysis of the military performance of the Indian Army in major theatres during the war.

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Bioethics of military performance enhancement

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps ◽

10.1136/jramc-2018-001130 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 165 (4) ◽

pp. 226-231

Author(s):

Maxwell Mehlman

Keyword(s):

Performance Enhancement ◽

Service Members ◽

Civilian Life ◽

Improve Performance ◽

Carryover Effects ◽

Military Performance ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

The Military ◽

Do So

Biological interventions to improve performance, such as amphetamines, have a long history of military use, and in the future may include more advanced biotechnologies. This article discusses the ethics of using biomedical enhancements in the military. The article begins by describing the distinction between biomedical enhancements and interventions intended to prevent, treat or mitigate disease. It then sets forth three principles to guide the ethical use of bioenhancements—proportionality, paternalism and fairness. The article applies these principles to concerns raised by military bioenhancement: safety, fairness in access to military reward, carryover effects to civilian life, whether service members can be ordered to use bioenhancements and when they may be permitted to do so voluntarily.

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Character Strengths: A Study of Argentinean Soldiers

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.5209/rev_sjop.2012.v15.n1.37310 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 199-215 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Alejandro C. Cosentino ◽

Alejandro Castro Solano

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Educational Institution ◽

Self Report ◽

Military Students ◽

Career Stage ◽

Military Academy ◽

Character Strength ◽

Military Performance ◽

Positive Traits ◽

The Military

The primary objective of this research was to study the differences in positive traits between military and civilian college students and between cadets in their first and final years at a military academy. Second, the research aimed to study the relations between positive traits and the academic and military performance of cadets in their first and final years, according to the classification of positive traits by Peterson and Seligman (2004). To accomplish these objectives, a sample of university students from a military educational institution and a sample of civilian university students were studied. The instruments used were a 24-item self-report measure of positive traits, a measure of social desirability, and objective scores of academic and military performance. The results generally showed that when age and career stage were held constant, the scores of the military students were higher than the scores of the civilian students across various strengths. Military students reported higher levels of the character strength of spirituality than did civilian students. The relationships between strengths and performance differed for students in their first and final years at the military academy. In particular, cadets with the higher levels of academic or military performance in their last year, i.e., the cadets best adapted to the academy, reported higher levels of the character strength of persistence when compared to low-performing cadets in the same year of study.

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Fatigue assessment through non-invasive physiological monitoring in military performance: protocol for a systematic review

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Safety ◽

10.24840/2184-0954_002.002_0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 75-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lidia Denisse Bustos Sandoval ◽

J. C. C. Guedes ◽

J. Torres Costa

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Life Stress ◽

Real Life ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Military Operations ◽

Fatigue Assessment ◽

Military Performance ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

The Military

During military operations, soldiers often encounter extreme environmental, metabolic and neuropsychiatric conditions, which combined lead to a fatigue status that can cause serious physiological impairments, decreasing military performance on the battlefield. Comprehensive studies in realistically stressful environments are essential to expand the knowledge regarding the consequences of real-life stress exposure, facilitate development of operationally-useful techniques and promote the conception of improved treatments. Therefore, a systematic review is proposed to obtain relevant information about fatigue assessment through multiple physiological parameters in the military context, to focus on determining the associations between fatigue and physiological response in order to plan in the future adequate interventions to prevent related negative consequences. Thus, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P) Statement, this systematic review protocol was elaborated in order to present adequate guidelines to develop a research that can provide appropriate results to fulfil the sought objective. Five databases will be accessed (SCOPUS, PubMed, Science Direct, Medline and Web of Science) and a total of 9 combinations of keywords will be used. This protocol is registered in PROSPERO under the code of PROSPERO CRD42018105833.

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The Development and Impact of Hong Taiji’s Artillery Corps (1631–1643)

Journal of Chinese Military History ◽

10.1163/22127453-bja10007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-40

Author(s):

Yan Hon Michael Chung

Keyword(s):

Decisive Role ◽

Military Performance ◽

Time Period ◽

Siege Warfare ◽

Political Impact ◽

The Military

Abstract This study retraces the development of the Later Jin/Qing artillery corps between 1631 and 1642, examines the factors that led to its success, and evaluates its military and socio-political impact. The newly established artillery corps, under the direction of the talented Hong Taiji, learned effectively from its participation in sieges and developed the relevant military knowledge. By 1642, it had turned from an auxiliary force into a full-fledged unit that played a decisive role in siege warfare. The success of the Qing artillery corps greatly facilitated the Qing conquest of China (1644–1683). Moreover, the military performance of the artillery corps in the time period led to the multiple expansions and the ultimate institutionalization of the Han Eight Banner Army (baqi Hanjun).

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