Supporting the National Guard and Reservists as Civilian Employees

Members of the military’s National Guard and Reserves acquire numerous competencies and technical skills through their training that could be valuable to civilian organizations. For employers seeking to hire and retain National Guardsmen and Reservists, understanding the challenges faced while managing dual employment can aid organizations that are striving to become or improve their support of employees also serving in a Reserve component. This chapter reviews distinctions between the National Guard, Reserves, and active duty before outlining legal rights of employers and service members who work for nonmilitary organizations. The chapter then provides a business case for employing National Guardsmen and Reservists while describing prominent corresponding challenges experienced by all stakeholders. It concludes with best practices for organizations striving to be military friendly to National Guardsmen and Reservists.

Energy resources and importance of Turkish states in the context of globalization

The Turkish Republics of the Caspian region have maintained their importance throughout history and are still important for a variety of reasons. Always having strategic importance, this region is sometimes commercially military-friendly. At present, the world is on the agenda thanks to rich oil and natural gas reserves, and has not been stable for many years. The search for alternative hydrocarbon resources is to meet the growing population in the world today and thus meet growing energy needs. In this case, the countries of the Caspian region have become the countries attracting attention to the rich energy resources of Western energy and global energy companies.

The Birth of ‘Operational Law’

This chapter analyses the invention and development of ‘operational law’ by US military lawyers and commanders in the decades following the Vietnam War. Operational law is a pragmatic, practitioner-oriented, and military-friendly framework for interpreting rights and responsibilities under international, domestic and military law. This chapter shows how operational law helped the US military to put these legal regimes to work in the service of achieving military objectives, as military lawyers helped create a broadly permissive albeit bounded legal environment for military operations. The birth of operational law laid the foundations for a new symbiosis between commanders and lawyers, providing them with a common vocabulary and a shared understanding of the mission—factors which were later crucial to the integration of military lawyers into targeting operations.